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Ernst Hanfstaengl Quotes

1887–1975 Germany

Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (February 2, 1887 – November 6, 1975) was a German-American businessman and intimate friend of Adolf Hitler. He eventually fell out of favour with Hitler, however, and defected from Nazi Germany to the United States.

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Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

If we had wanted to conduct a pogrom against the Jews, it would all have been over now.

The same Jewry now is seeking to smirch Germany's renaissance.

The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.

Tell him the Reichstag is burning.

In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.

What Hitler was able to do to a crowd in two and a half hours will never be repeated in 10,000 years. Because of his miraculous throat construction, he was able to create a rhapsody of hysteria. In time, he became the living unknown soldier of Germany.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ernst Hanfstaengl (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.