On the 128th anniversary of his birth, today we offer
some seldom-seen statements made regarding Adolf Hitler, the first great
leader of National Socialism.
“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
“Hitler is the man of my life. The German dictator had
been an ideal leader who dedicated his life to the realization of his noble
ambition. He never lived for himself but for Germany and the German people. I
have always wished to live like him.” – Dr. Noureddine Tarraf, Egyptian Minister
of Health in the 1950s
“A man of peace… one of the most sincere, honest and
open men I have ever spoken to.” –
Victor Ridder, American publisher
“Words are too poor to express what we owe this man,
who is a symbol of the best of what the world has produced. We can only
celebrate him as the God-sent rescuer of Europe.” – Per Engdahl, Swedish author
“I’m not worthy to speak up for Adolf Hitler, and his
life and deeds do not invite sentimental rousing. Hitler was a warrior, a
warrior for humankind and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all
nations. He was a reforming character of the highest order, and his
historical fate was that he functioned in a time of unequalled brutality, which
in the end felled him. Thus may the ordinary Western European look at
Adolf Hitler. And we, his close followers, bow our heads at his death….” – Knut Hamsun, leading
Norwegian author, written (at great risk) upon the death of Hitler in 1945
“My dear Hitler… I congratulate you from the bottom of
my heart. Even if you appear to have been defeated, in reality you are the
victor.” – Muhammad
Anwar El Sadat, third President of Egypt
“A man who within the space of four years has raised
his people from the very lowest depths to self-consciousness, pride,
discipline, and power deserves the gratitude of his fellow citizens and the
admiration of mankind.” – Sven Hedin,
Swedish explorer and author
‘I have never seen a happier people than the Germans.
Hitler is one of the greatest men I have ever met…. Yes, Heil Hitler. I, too,
say that — because he is truly a great man.” – Lloyd George, former British Prime
Minister
“Hitler is always present before my eyes: as a man of
peace in 1936, as a man of war in 1944. It is not possible to have been a
personal witness to the life of such an extraordinary man without being marked
by it forever. Not a day goes by but Hitler rises again in my memory, not as a
man long dead, but as a real being who paces his office floor, seats himself in
his chair, pokes the burning logs in the fireplace…. After 1945 Hitler was
accused of every cruelty, but it was not in his nature to be cruel. He loved
children. It was an entirely natural thing for him to stop his car and share
his food with young cyclists along the road. Once he gave his raincoat to a
derelict plodding in the rain. At midnight he would interrupt his work and
prepare the food for his dog Blondi. He could not eat meat, because it meant
the death of a living creature….” – Léon Degrelle, Belgian leader
“My sizing up of the man [Hitler] as I sat and talked
with him was that he is really one who truly loves his fellow man, and his
country, and would make any sacrifice for their good. He is a man of deep
sincerity and a genuine patriot. As I talked with him, I could not but think of
Joan of Arc. The world will yet come to see a very great man. He is distinctly
a mystic…” –
Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada
“I think that he [Adolf Hitler] is primarily a
dreamer, a visionary. His mind, nurtured by the other-worldness of the Alpine
scenery round his mountain retreat of Berchtesgaden, runs to visions; and I
have heard his intimates say that, even in cabinet meetings when vital questions
of policy are being discussed, he is dreaming — thinking of the light that
never was on sea or land, the consecration and the poet’s dream. …He is so
transparently honest when he is weaving visions of his own creation that nobody
can doubt him. He is ready, like a medieval saint, to go through fire and water
for his beliefs… He sees himself as a crusader; he thinks the whole time of
saving mankind. That is why he reaches such a stage of mystical exaltation when
he talks about saving the world from Bolshevism. It is the old Siegfried
complex once again. Just as the young German knight of old went out into the
dim, dark forests to kill dragons, so he goes out to exterminate Bolshevism.” – Sir Stephen Henry Roberts, Australian
author and academic
“Hitler is a very great man, like an inspired
religious leader, and as such rather fanatical, but not scheming, not selfish,
not greedy for power, but a mystic, a visionary who really wants the best for
his country.” – Anne
Morrow Lindbergh, American author
“He once said: ‘I wish nothing on my gravestone other
than my name.’ Even his name will probably not stand over his grave, for we
know that he must have perished while fighting bitterly in the Reich
Chancellery. We know that the enemy will be able to find a body in the ruins
caused by countless artillery shells and flame throwers, and that they may say
that it is the Führer’s body, but we will not believe it. If the enemy says
that, we will not believe it. That his body is dead we believe, what is mortal
of him has perished, has passed away, but he has fulfilled his most beautiful
oath, this affirmation: ‘The most valuable thing God has given me on this world
is my people. My faith rests on it, I serve it with my will, and I give my life
to it.’ His life is fulfilled. He began by fighting for his people, and he
ended that way. A life of battle.” – Hermann Okraß, German writer, published at great personal risk
in the Hamburger
Zeitung of May 2, 1945
“We painted Hitler as a monster, a devil. And that’s
why we could not move away from that portrayal after the war. We had mobilized
the masses against the devil incarnate. And so we were forced to continue in
this satanic scenario after the war. We could not possibly have explained to
our people that the war had actually been only a preventative economic
measure.” – James
Addison Baker, US Secretary of State
“Hitler is endless proof of God’s love and blessing
for which we ever must be grateful.” – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, leader of
the National Socialist Women’s League
“[T]he greatest man in history, whose name was Adolf
Hitler. …He was the greatest White man who ever lived and the greatest leader
that the White race ever had. He has influenced not only our lives, but the
whole world.” – Ben
Klassen, American religious leader
“He [Adolf Hitler] has a supreme intellect. I have
known only two other men to whom I could apply such distinction — Lord
Northcliffe and Lloyd George. If one puts a question to Hitler, he gives an
immediate, brilliant, clear answer. There is no human being living whose
promise on important matters I would trust more readily. He believes that
Germany has a Divine calling and that the German people are destined to save
Europe from the revolutionary attacks of Communism. He values family life very
highly, whereas Communism is its worst enemy. He has thoroughly cleansed the
moral, ethical life of Germany. …No words can describe his politeness; he
disarms men as well as women and can win both at any time with his
conciliatory, pleasant smile. He is a man of rare culture. His knowledge of
music, the arts, and architecture is profound.” – Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount
Rothermere, British newspaper editor and writer
“Faust,
the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternally young and know
neither time nor transience.” – Baldur von Schirach, National Socialist leader
“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 Nürnberg party congress, since the time of Mohammed nothing like it
has been seen in the world. …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.
…Hitler is a medicine man, a spiritual vessel, a demi-deity or, even better, a
myth.” – Carl
Jung, Swiss psychologist and philosopher
“What will count in the long run in determining Adolf
Hitler’s stature is not whether he lost or won the war but whether it was he or
his adversaries who were on the side of the Life Force, whether it was he or
they who served the cause of Truth and human progress. We only have to look
around us today to know it was not they.” – Dr. William L. Pierce, founder of the
National Alliance and National
Vanguard
