In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether. 'Living-space…

- Ian Kershaw

Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in e…

- Ian Kershaw

Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. …

- Ian Kershaw

You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast…

- Ian Kershaw

The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political part…

- Ian Kershaw

Hitler was never a socialist.

- Ian Kershaw

Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - we…

- Ian Kershaw

Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.

- Ian Kershaw

Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company.

- Ian Kershaw