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Book: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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  1. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    It does not matter what you think," he exclaims, "so long as you obey.
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  2. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    As one reads Hegel one realizes how much inspiration Hitler, like Marx, drew from him, even if it was at second hand. Above all else, Hegel in his theory of "heroes," those great agents who are
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  3. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    the Almighty had called upon him to do in this cataclysmic world and the philosophy, the Weltanschauung, that
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  4. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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  5. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    Nietzsche, with his grotesque exaggeration, goes much further. The strong men, the masters, regain the pure conscience of a beast of prey; monsters filled with joy, they can return from a fearful succession of murder, arson, rape and torture with the same joy in their hearts, the same contentment in their souls as if they had indulged in some student's rag… When a man is capable of commanding, when he is by nature a "Master," when he is violent in act and gesture, of what importance are treaties to him?… To judge morality properly, it must be replaced by two concepts borrowed from zoology: the taming of a beast and the breeding of a specific species.
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  6. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    The Germans, if one may risk a generalization, have a weakness for blaming foreigners for their failures.
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  7. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world," he finally said, "I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls!
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  8. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    He made it clear enough that there would be no "democratic nonsense" and that the Third Reich would be ruled by the Fuehrerprinzip, the leadership principle-that is, that it would be a dictatorship.
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  9. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    If the French had then marched into the Rhineland, we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs, for the military resources at our disposal would have been wholly inadequate for even a moderate resistance.
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  10. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    But the fact remains that according to the testimony of one of his own Nazi followers in the column, the physician Dr. Walther Schulz, which was supported by several other witnesses, Hitler "was the first to get up and turn back," leaving his dead and wounded comrades lying in the street. He
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  11. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    Like most great revolutionaries he could thrive only in evil times, at first when the masses were unemployed, hungry and desperate, and later when they were intoxicated by
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  12. William L. Shirer _ The Rise and Fall of the Third

    A gigantic crowd of one million persons was gathered on the Maifeld to hear the two fascist dictators speak their pieces. Mussolini, orating in German, was carried away by the deafening applause-and by Hitler's flattering words.
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