Heinz Linge > Quotes

“What people do in their beds’, Hitler used to say, ‘does not interest me so long as relationships do not prejudice the State and its leadership.’ And he kept to that. Rumours”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“Scarcely a general can be found amongst them who admits that he lost a battle by his own bad leadership.”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“How should those of us of no great education challenge him at table when he compared the efficiency of lions and camels and arrived at the conclusion that the carnivorous lion was far less efficient than the camel in the desert, which ate plants and grass.”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood 'above the world' in an environment comparable to Olympius, legendary mount of the gods, but that alone can never have been the motivation for himto put down his private roots on Obersalzberg.”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“Thirty-seven years later I found out for whom he had been searching: Charlotte Lobjoie, a woman who had born him a son, Jean Marie, in March 1918.40”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“The man who had asked my name in Obersalzberg in the summer of 1934 had been a dominant personality excluding a spellbinding charisma to which few were not prey. The embodied sovereign power, total power. The man whom I burnt and interred under a hail of Red Army shells near the Reich Chancellery was a trembling old man, a spent force, feeble, a failure. Like the Reich which he had aimed to bring into an era of unparalleled brilliance and opulence and had become a heap of rubble, he was the disfigured embodiment of his earlier self.”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“Whether we like it or not, Linge’s Hitler comes across as a rounded human being, and he is arguably all the more terrifying for that. Linge”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“His incredible memory did not desert him in this phase of his life. Mentally he was still a giant who overshadowed all around him.”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“It was difficult to understand him. On the one hand he pandered even to the most unimportant things while on the other he was excessive and unfeeling. He might show the most fatherly concern for a female secretary who had stabbed her toe but be utterly ice-cold when issuing orders which set thousands to their deaths.”
― Heinz Linge, The Hitler Book

“Hitler’s ability to keep a secret was unparalleled.”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“twenty pfennigs per pound. Hitler”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“laurig, shy of making decisions and happy to procrastinate.”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“Before the war I often had the impression of being in the household of a busy architect and building tycoon rather than the Führer and Reich Chancellor.”
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“OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht) and OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres)”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet

“Wine tasted to him ‘so sour’ that he thought it could be improved ‘with a spoonful of sugar’. Beer, as he often informed us, he had liked very much when he was young, but now he found it ‘too bitter’.”
― Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet