David Cesarani > Quotes

“The memorandum gives a startling insight into Hitler’s thinking. He was above all a warrior. His years in the trenches were the formative experience in his life and his constant point of reference. His chief enemy was international Jewry.”
― David Cesarani, Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949

“Hitler envisaged something very different. He was even thinking beyond the demands for segregation that emanated from racial anti-Semites, who saw the threat of Jews expressed in terms of blood and miscegenation. Hitler believed that Germany was at war with the Jews.”
― David Cesarani, Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949

“The Nuremberg Laws were a typical Hitlerian attempt to get out of a mess by taking a radical step, in effect a gamble, without thinking through the consequences.”
― David Cesarani, Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949