“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1973
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Day 261 of Hitler’s Chancellorship (Germany)
“After an exchange of niceties, I asked the Chancellor whether an incident on the Polish, Austrian or French border which drew an enemy into the Reich would be allowed to be a casus belli. Of course he said, ‘No, no.’ I then said in case such a thing were to occur in the Ruhr valley …
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Day 257 of Hitler’s Chancellorship (Germany)
“We then talked of dangers to Germany and of the growing hostility abroad. [Von Neurath] repeated as usual how fully he agreed with me, but I’m afraid the lesson of economic nationalism has not been learned by him or, more important, by Hitler himself. If they really believe a country can be economically independent and …
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Day 249 of Hitler’s Chancellorship (Germany)
“Mr. Crane…was enthusiastic about his Hitler interview…Crane found Hitler simple, enthusiastic, bent on stirring the German people to passionate self-confidence and wanting in knowledge of foreign problems. This is the same story I have heard again and again.” William E. Dodd, United States Ambassador to Germany, Ambassador Dodd’s Diaries, October 5, 1933
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