Prove Hitler Wrong –
Read and Think for Yourself
After reading Donald Trump’s acceptance speech, as an
historian I saw some glaring similarities between some of the things he was
saying about the state of our nation and the need for him to be elected to “make
things right.” My first response was “I need to write an essay filled with
comparisons so that those who follow my blogs will see the same thing.” Then I
found a website that had a collection of quotes from Adolph Hitler that gave
insight into the man and his philosophy of action in order to achieve his
ultimate goal which he nearly achieved except for his “fatal flaw” that
Shakespeare describes so well in many of his tragedies about great leaders.
I don’t think anyone
in our country supporting either of the major political parties sees themselves
in any way associated with Hitler. In fact, I see wall posts all the time
comparing the other “evil” party to someone that no rational person would
attribute any redeemable qualities. After World War II, those who followed
Hitler and carried out his despicable orders were put on trial and many were
executed. The state of Israel,
in fact, found Adolph Eichmann and executed him in the 60’s for his war crimes.
The free world has struggled with discovering what was it about Germany that
caused these people to follow this man? Were they inherently evil, blindly
going along while witnessing the most atrocious atrocities against human kind?
How did that happen? As I read a series of quotes from Adolph Hitler taken from
his writings about how to attain power, my mind started making many comparisons
to the hot bed of discussion in our country that has brought our country into a
state of violence that concerns everyone.
Donald Trump’s discussion about the need to restore law and
order in our country is what started me on this journey. But as I read these
quotes listed at www.azquotes.com, I
thought I would post sixteen of them here in my blog. These, hopefully, will be
read by those who desire to read beyond headlines and fancy quotes posted on
some wall to support preconceived biases and examine with an open mind to
perhaps see where they fit into this discussion of Hitler. I have already
thought about myself, but until everyone is willing to look at the “man in the
mirror” I don’t think much will change.
Hitler’s Quotes in No
Particular Order
“If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell
them the crudest and most stupid things.”
“The best way to take control over a people and control them
is to take away their freedom a little at a time, to erode rights by a 1,000
tiny pieces and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will
not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which
these changes cannot be reversed.”
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and
eventually they will believe it.”
“To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.”
“This year will go down in history. For the first time a
civilization has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police
more efficient and the world will follow our lead into the future.”
“Pride in one’s own race – and that does not imply contempt
for the other races – is a normal and healthy sentiment.”
“What luck for the government that the people are stupid.”
(Hitler got rid of all the stupid people in the mental institutions).
“How fortunate for the government that people do not think.
There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were
otherwise human society could not exist.”
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself
to the comprehensive of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
“The heaviest blow which ever struck humanity was
Christianity; Bolshevism (Communism) is Christianity’s illegitimate child. Both
are inventions of the Jew.”
“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has
no ears or eyes.”
“Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state.”
“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives
people harder than a fear of sudden death.”
“Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all who remembers the
Armenian genocide?’
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious
treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for
the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost curtailment
of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
“Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have
visited Germany during the months after the national revolution (1937) and were
able to testify as eye- witnesses that there is no country in the world where
person and property are held in better respect than in our own, but there is
perhaps also no country in the world where a more vigorous fight is put up
against those who believe that they are free to let loose their lower instincts
on their fellow beings.”
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