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Hitler remarked privately in later years that his choice of Rosenberg, whom he regarded as weak and lazy, was strategic ; Hitler did not want the temporary leader of the Nazis to become overly popular or hungry for power, because a person with either of those two qualities might not want to cede the party leadership after Hitler's release.
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During the Spanish Civil War Hitler remarked, " Franco ought to erect a monument to the glory of the Junkers Ju 52.
Prior to World War II she remarked in an interview with The New York Times Magazine that Adolf Hitler should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
After one of these dinners Hitler remarked to Porsche, " This is the car for my roads ".
After one of these dinners Hitler remarked to Porsche, " This is the car for my roads ".
He later remarked, " I would have been Hitler's best friend … if Hitler had been capable of having friends.
On his personal life, Speer remarked that Eva Braun had told him, in the middle of 1943, that Hitler was too busy, too immersed, and too tired to have sex with her.
After discussion had turned to the Iraq crisis, she remarked that U. S. president Bush was preparing a war to detract from domestic problems such as the economic crisis at the time, and that this was a popular political strategy which had already been used by Adolf Hitler.
With regard to the signing of a German-Soviet nonaggression pact with secret protocols dividing eastern Europe three months later, Hitler remarked to military commanders that " Litvinov's replacement was decisive.
Speer himself remarked that many of the buildings Hitler asked him to construct were glorifying the victories he didn't yet have in his pocket.
As Albert Speer remarked, when it was safe to do so: " The Romans built arches of triumph to celebrate the big victories won by the Roman Empire, while Hitler built them to celebrate victories he had not yet won ".
She remarked, " Hitler has taken nearly everything from me but my life, but you can't live on regret ".
When Speer remarked on the staggering cost of the building, Hitler, who laid its cornerstone on September 9, 1937, merely retorted that it would cost less than two battleships of the Bismarck class.
Nevertheless, Giesler remarked that Hitler never made plans for world domination and that to suggest as much is not only nonsense () but ' Speer Rubbish ' ().
Hitler and privately
Goebbels privately lamented " a complete lack of direction in German domestic policy ," but of course he could not directly criticize Hitler or go against his wishes.
Hitler met privately with Hindenburg for over an hour.
Although Heydrich's death was employed for pro-Reich propaganda, Hitler seemed privately to blame Heydrich for his own death, through carelessness:
Hitler privately condemned mystical and pseudoreligious interests as " nonsense ".
Hitler privately shared much of Röhm's animus toward the traditionalists in the army.
John Toland noted that Hitler had long been privately aware that Röhm and his SA associates were homosexuals ; although he disapproved of their behaviour, he stated that ' the SA are a band of warriors and not a moral institution.
In July 1941, when Joseph Stalin appealed for a partisan war, Hitler privately stated on July 16: " The Russians have now issued an order for a partisan war behind our front.
This truly enormous building was, according to Albert Speer, inspired by Hadrian's Pantheon, which Hitler visited privately on May 7, 1938.
Under Ribbentrop's guidance, Ōshima met privately with Hitler in the fall of 1935.
Hitler and later
Two years later he became director of the Frankfurt Opera, where he remained until he lost this position in 1933 through the rise of the Hitler regime.
And here is Kennan's image of Hitler, Stalin's temporary collaborator in the subjugation and oppression of weaker peoples, and his later enemy:
In fact de Wohl's predictions were so inaccurate that he was soon labelled a " complete charlatan " and it was later shown that Hitler considered astrology to be " complete nonsense ".
Though Hitler was originally against the idea ( but later convinced ), Drexler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP ) early in 1920.
In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and Adolf Hitler labelled Anthroposophy " Jewish methods.
In fact Hitler intended to start an unlimited war, at a much later date than 1939.
Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.
" I was determined to go ahead ", he later wrote, " for Hitler must be laughed at.
During World War II, in order to protect it from advancing allied forces, Hitler ordered the king ’ s coffin, as well as those of Frederick the Great and Paul von Hindenburg, into hiding, first to Berlin and later to a salt mine outside of Bernestrode.
After establishing the " Rome-Berlin axis " with Benito Mussolini, and signing the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan – which was joined by Italy a year later in 1937 – Hitler felt able to take the offensive in foreign policy.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler later appointed him Commander of the Replacement ( Home ) Army and General Plenipotentiary for the entire Reich's administration ( Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung ).
As he learned more about Hitler through his reading, he began to regard him as a useful face of the party, and he later admired and even worshipped him.
A furious Hitler then ordered Himmler to remove Baarová from Germany, and she was deported to Czechoslovakia, from where she later left for Italy.
Voss later recounted: " When Goebbels learned that Hitler had committed suicide, he was very depressed and said: ' It is a great pity that such a man is not with us any longer.
* 1934 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy ; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as " a silly little monkey ".
Six months later, though, Hitler and von Papen accepted his help.
In particular, Ribbentrop acquired the habit of listening carefully to what Hitler was saying, memorizing the Führer's pet ideas, and then later presenting Hitler's ideas as his own – a practice that much impressed Hitler as proving Ribbentrop was an ideal National Socialist diplomat.
Weizsäcker later recalled that " On 3 Sept., when the British and French declared war, Hitler was surprised, after all, and was to begin with, at a loss ".
Three days later, Ribbentrop attempted to meet with Hitler, only to be told to go away as Hitler had more important things to do.
On one occasion, in the early 1930s, in a comment that came back to haunt him in later years, Munk expressed admiration for Hitler ( for uniting Germans ) and wished that the same kind of unifying figure could be found for Danes.
How can we ever thank you ?” She later explained: “ Everyone thought the war was over, and in that spirit I sent the cable to Hitler ”.
According to Ernst Hanfstaengl, who was a close friend of Hitler throughout the later 1920s and early 1930s, Riefenstahl tried to begin a relationship with Hitler early on but was turned down by him.
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