Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führerof Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator of Nazi Germany, he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was a central figure of the Holocaust...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth20 April 1889
CountryGermany
stronger defeated existence
For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right a thousand times over, to be defeated by a stronger opponent or a stronger coalition.
cruel man nature
I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.
adversary against art attention care consists leadership people single split taking
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
war loss horror
I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.
war past thinking
I certainly am not alone in the world with this demand; I am in the best of company. Let it be said that no self-respecting people and no responsible government would be able to think or much less act differently in such a case. The world has already seen a great many wars lost in the past.
war past league
If in the past, after every lost war, the unlucky vanquished were divested forever of their honor and their equality of rights, the League of Nations would even now have to be satisfied with a whole series of non-equal and thus ultimately dishonorable and inferior nations.
league equal
Neither I nor anyone else in Germany would even consider placing any "conditions" on our possible return to the League of Nations. Whether or not we return to this body depends exclusively upon whether we can belong to it as a completely equal nation. This is not a "condition," but a matter of course.
taken understanding path
I hold to my conviction that, once this path of mutual understanding and consideration has been taken, more will come of it in the end than through ever so extensive pacts inherently lacking in clarity.
country believe effort
I hold that this must be said, for treaties only make sense when concluded by honor-loving peoples and honor-conscious governments. Germany wishes to establish honest relations with the peoples of neighboring countries. We have done this in the East, and I believe that not only Berlin but Warsaw as well will rejoice in the decontamination of the atmosphere brought about through our joint efforts.
pact willingness
I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!
participation
German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.
mean long league
As long as the League of Nations constitutes only a treaty of guarantee for the victorious nations, it is by no means worthy of its name.
break
Germany will never break the peace of its own accord.
party league one-day
The fact that, with time, this League [of Nations]-which was presumably designed by its founders to exist for all eternity-cannot be coupled with a Treaty the short term of which is inherent in its own weaknesses and impracticabilities, is a point which can perhaps be contested by today's interested parties, but which will one day be deemed a matter of course in history.