What Great Minds Have Said About Hitler

“I am not worthy to speak aloud of Adolf Hitler, and his life & work are not suited to any sentimental talk. He was a champion of mankind, and a herald of the message of justice for all nations. He was a reforming figure of highest rank, and his historic fate was that he had to work at a time of unparalleled perfidy (deceitfulness); that ultimately beat him down. Thus, may the ordinary Western European look at  Adolf Hitler.  And we, his close followers, bow our heads at his death.”-Knut Hamsun, Norwegian Noble Prize-awarded writer

“Anyone who has visited these places (Hitler’s residences) can imagine how in a few years, Hitler will emerge from the hate that now surrounds him and come to be regarded as one of the most significant figures ever to have lived. He had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.” -John F. Kennedy

“It (Germany) is now full of hope & confidence, and of a renewed sense of determination to lead its own life without interference from any influence outside its own frontiers.  One man (Hitler) has accomplished this miracle.  He is a born leader of men!  A magnetic & dynamic personality with a single-minded purpose, a resolute will and a dauntless heart.

As to his popularity, there can be no manner of doubt.  The old trust him; the young idolize him.  It is not the admiration accorded to a popular leader.  It is the worship of a national hero who has saved his country from utter despondence & degradation.  I have never met a happier people than the Germans.

He is not merely in name, but in fact, the national leader.  He has made them safe against potential enemies by whom they were surrounded.  He is also securing them against that constant dread of starvation, which is one of the poignant memories of the last years of the War and the first years of the Peace

(Hitler) the George Washington of Germany… To those who have not actually seen & sensed the way Hitler reigns over the heart & mind of Germany, this description may appear extravagant.  All the same, it is the bare truth.  This great people will work better, sacrifice more, and, if necessary, fight with greater resolution because Hitler asks them to do so.  Those who do not comprehend this central fact cannot judge the present possibilities of modern Germany

-David Lloyd George, Ex-Prime Minister of the U.K.

There is no question but that Hitler belongs in the category of the truly mystic medicine man.  As somebody commented about him at the last Nuremberg party congress, since the time of Mohammed nothing like it has been seen in this world.  His body does not suggest strength.  The outstanding characteristic of his physiognomy is its dreamy look.  I was especially struck by that when I saw pictures taken of him in the Czechoslovakian crisis; there was in his eyes the look of a seer.  This markedly mystic characteristic of Hitler’s is what makes him do things which seem to us illogical, inexplicable, and unreasonable… So you see, Hitler is a medicine man, a spiritual vessel, a demi-deity or, even better, a myth.”

-Dr. Carl Jung

“Hitler was self-taught and he made no attempt to hide the fact.  The smug conceit of intellectuals, their shiny ideas packaged like so many flashlight batteries, irritated him at times.  His own knowledge he had acquired through selective & unremitting study, and he knew far more than thousands of diploma-decorated academics.

I don’t think anyone ever read as much as he did.  He normally read one book every day, always first reading the conclusion and the index in order to gauge the work’s interest for him.  He had the power to extract the essence of each book, and then store it in his computer-like mind. I have heard him talk about complicated scientific books with faultless precision, even at the height of the war (World War 2).

His intellectual curiosity was limitless.  He was readily familiar with the writings of the most diverse authors, and nothing was too complex for his comprehension.  He had a deep knowledge and understanding of Buddha, Confucius and Jesus Christ, as well as Luther, Calvin, and Savonarola; of literary giants such as Dante, Schiller, Shakespeare and Goethe; and analytical writers such as Renan and Gobineau, Chamberlain and Sorel.

He trained himself in philosophy by studying Aristotle & Plato.  He could quote entire paragraphs of Schopenhauer from memory, and for a long time carried a pocket edition of Schopenhauer with him.  Nietzsche taught him much about will-power.

His thirst for knowledge was unquenchable.  He spent hundreds of hours studying the works of Tacitus & Mommsen, military strategists such as Clausewitz, and empire builders such as Bismarck.

Nothing escaped him; world history or the history of civilizations, the study of the Bible and the Talmud, Thomistic philosophy and all the masterpieces of Homer, Sophocles, Horace, Ovid, Titus Livius and Cicero.  He knew Julian the Apostate as if he had been his contemporary.

His knowledge also extended to mechanics. He knew how engines worked; he understood the ballistics of various weapons; and he astonished the best medical scientists with his knowledge of medicine & biology.

The universality of Hitler’s knowledge may surprise or displease those unaware of it, but it is nonetheless a historical fact.  Hitler was one of the most cultivated men of this century.  Many times more so than Churchill, an intellectual mediocrity; or than Pierre Laval, who had a merely cursory knowledge of history; or than Roosevelt; or Eisenhower, who never got beyond detective novels.”

-General Leon Degrelle (Belgian SS volunteer)

“Where else has there ever been a nation of 70 million souls, on the highest level of civilization & culture, which gave 98% of its election vote to one single man (Hitler)? Whether it makes sense or not, it is an undeniable fact, proven anew day in, day out, that Adolf Hitler is the best-known person in the world today, second only to Jesus Christ. Particularly in the most powerful nations, he is, politically speaking, still very much alive, for time and again, the world over, he is repeatedly quoted and continually referred to and described. Magazines, books, movies, radio, television, parliaments and countless speakers from all nations continue… years after his death, to seize every possible opportunity to exploit this man and to profit from him.” -Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (Germany)

“I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Adolf Hitler… The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him… the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs… He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds… One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny that he can’t win, and yet that he somehow deserves to.” ~ George Orwell, British writer, reviewing Mein Kampf, 1940

“Hitler’s (peace-time) achievements, domestic rather than foreign, during the six years of his leadership of Germany were extraordinary… He brought prosperity & confidence to the Germans, the kind of prosperity that is the result of confidence.  The thirties, after 1933, were sunny years for most Germans; something that remained in the memories of an entire generation among them.” -John Lukacs, a Hungarian-born American historian

“He (Hitler) has a supreme intellect… He has thoroughly cleansed the moral, ethical life of Germany… No words can describe his politeness… He is a man of rare culture. His knowledge of music, the arts and architecture is profound.” -Viscount Rothermere, author of “Warning and Predictions”

“Taking everything into account, the man (Hitler) and his movement, in championship of our race, was the closest to perfection that this world has ever seen so far, and that is enough for us. We proclaim him ‘right’ because where he is said to have gone wrong is, in our estimation, so massively dwarfed by where the opposite is true. Given but six short years of peace, he, his party and his people in unison wrought a virtual miracle in that brief span. Never elsewhere in history has so much been done for Aryan survival and revival so quickly.  Hitler Was Right!” -Colin Jordan, leading British National Socialist advocate

He (Hitler) demanded… that society become educated in a spirit of civic responsibility, and… that the state encourage profound reverence for German history, art and ethnic traditions, to keep his countrymen on the evolutionary course that molded them into a proud and unified people.  The historically maligned leader of National Socialist Germany interpreted the duty of government as to foster, never restrict, the creative energy of a nation and to expedite its progress; for without progress there is no future and in the future rests the hope for a better life.  This was the substance of Hitler’s revolution.

-Richard Tedor, author of “Hitler’s Revolution”

“With all the things we criticize, he (Hitler) is undoubtedly a great man. And I believe he has done much for the German people… The growth of German military aviation is, I believe, without parallel in history… Germans “are an extremely intelligent & able people, close to our own, and it seems that there should be a way of working with them, rather than against them.” -Charles Lindbergh, American patriot & aviator