Hitler Historiography

Historian S Williams

“the fact was that...there were simply not enough Germans who believed in democracy and individual freedom to save the Weimar Republic.”

Historian Ian Kershaw

“without the first world war and its legacy, a Hitler would have been unimaginable as a leader of Germany.”

Historian Finlay McKichan

“Hitler would have almost certainly remained on the fringes of politics had it not been for the Great Depression and the hardship it brought.”

Historian Eddy and Lancaster

“The Reichstag Fire Decree 'was of the utmost importance since it became the foundation on which Nazi rule rested.”

Historian William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.”

Hermann Goering

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them that they are in danger of being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

Historian Sherree Owens Zalampas

“Hitler’s theatricality was linked to his oratorical force. He was persuasive with small groups, but he electrified large audiences.”