Kit Morris

“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

“Bans, too, on organs of the SPD and restrictions on reporting imposed on other newspapers effectively muzzled the press, even when the bans were successfully challenged in the courts as illegal, and the newspapers reinstated.”
― Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris

“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