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The great modern mass-parties, first the foremost the Fascists, have re-discovered an old historical truth which seemed long since buried: that men often and masses almost always pay service not to their interests but to their illusions.

— Konrad Heiden Hitler: A Biography (1936)

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The Nazi party had been too hasty in incorporating the word ‘Socialist’ in its title, Hitler indeed wished it to be ‘Social Revolutionary.’

A History of National Socialism (1934)

Before the war [World War I] the anti-Semitic movement was of no political importance in Germany.

Hitler: A Biography (1936)

Karl Marx was himself an anti-Semite: that is to say, an opponent of bourgeois Jewry. Inversely, most Jews are anti-Marxist.

Hitler: A Biography (1936)

They could resign themselves to the Republic no less than the big industrialists, who did not favour the various abortive revolts and did not, for the most part, encourage National-Socialism.

Hitler: A Biography (1936)

Hitler expressed it in a form which made it intelligible to the masses. ‘We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany.’

A History of National Socialism (1934)

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