Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers.

Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

Hitler wanted to hear all about the American skyscrapers ... but failed utterly to draw logical conclusions from the information. .... He was passionately interested in the Ku Klux Klan. ... He seemed to think it was a political movement similar to his own.

Hitler's historical hero had always been Frederick the Great. [Later], under Goebbels' prompting ... Napoleon emerged ... as his model. .... Frederick the Great was a man who knew when to stop [and] Napoleon did not.

If it is not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it.

Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.