Roger Manvell > Quotes

“The Nazi leaders cannot be voided from human society simply because it is pleasanter or more convenient to regard them now as outside the pale of humanity.”
― Roger Manvell, Heinrich Himmler: The Sinister Life of the Head of the SS and Gestapo

“He was a man of impulse, of lavish activity so long as his attention was fully absorbed; he disliked painstaking detail or following through the schemes that he originated with such undisciplined energy.”
― Roger Manvell, Goering: The Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader

“Reading was for him a narrowing, not a widening experience He saw himself as a teacher and reformer born to change the world.”
― Roger Manvell, Heinrich Himmler: The Sinister Life of the Head of the SS and Gestapo

“In the same way, he proudly accepted full responsibility for rebuilding the German Air Farce and, although he was not an economic expert, for rebuilding the German economy. Of the Air Force he said, “I alone was responsible and am responsible, for I was Commander in Chief of the Air Force and Air Minister.”
― Roger Manvell, Goering: The Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader

“Nazism was not merely a factor in the immediate past; it was a manifestation of a part of human nature, and it may recur at any time and in any place.”
― Roger Manvell, Goering: The Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader