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Notorious G.O.D.

nice

It me.

The various occurrences of national existence have everywhere turned to the advantage of democracy

"He himself has nothing in common with the mass; like every great man he is all personality... In order to reach his goal, he is prepared to trample on his closest friends... As the need arises, he can trample them [the people] with the boots of a grenadier."

From the prize-winning essay “How Must The Man Be Constituted Who Will Lead Germany Back to Her Old Heights?" by Rudolf Heß, Hitler's future Deputy Führer

"He twists every fact. Make up your minds about such characters! Make no mistake. Hitler is a demagogue. He believes himself capable of filling you up with all kinds of tales that are anything but the truth."

-- Anti-Hitler pamphlet from founders of his DAP party, 1921

"Hitler promptly brought a libel suit against the authors, abolish[ed] the[ir] committee and [gave] him[self] dictatorial powers as president."

Imagination and Memory are but one thing.

Chang Yu quotes the words of Han Hsin: "Invincible is the soldier who hath his desire and returneth homewards."

For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer?

In Frederick the Great's INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS GENERALS we read: "A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to protect every point, while those who are better acquainted with their profession, having only the capital object in view, guard against a decisive blow, and acquiesce in small misfortunes to avoid greater."

The clever combatant does not demand perfection from the untalented. (Tu Mu)

The gullibility of the Germans is a subject which Hitler often harps on in 'Mein Kampf.' He was shortly to take full advantage of it.

Inasmuch as his victories are gained over circumstances that have not come to light, the world at large knows nothing of them, and he wins no reputation for wisdom; inasmuch as the hostile state submits before there has been any bloodshed, he receives no credit for courage. (Tu Mu)

"The Danube monarchy was dying of indigestion. For centuries a minority of German-Austrians had ruled over the polyglot empire of a dozen nationalities and stamped their language and their culture on it. But since 1848 their hold had been weakening. The minorities could not be digested. Austria was not a melting pot... Austrian politics had become dominated by the bitter quarrel of the nationalities."

"He [Hitler] appears to have had little of the carefree spirit of youth despite all the loafing."

Just a little light reading for the next four years.

"I was the kid who could throw a fastball that did genuinely awful things."