As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

I had lost faith in biography.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.