Kit Morris

“Hitler threatened ‘that the fight against the inner enemies of the nation’ would ‘never fail because of the formal state bureaucracy or its inadequacy’.”
― Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris

“Hitler swallowed the boundless adulation. He became the foremost believer in his own Führer cult. Hubris – that overweening arrogance which courts disaster – was inevitable”
― Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris

“It was a problem that afflicted the entire dictatorship – up to and including Hitler himself. Only positive messages were acceptable. Pessimism (which usually meant realism) was a sign of failure. Distortions of the truth were built into the communications system of the Third Reich at every level – most of all in the top echelons of the regime.”
― Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis

“The war could have been over had the French government been bold enough to send at least the forty divisions it had promised the Poles into action against the far smaller German forces left guarding the western front in September 1939.”
― Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis