„To find anything comparable to crowds’ euphoric reactions to Obama, you would have to go back to old newsreels of German crowds in the 1930s, with their adulation of their fuehrer, Adolf Hitler. With hindsight, we can look back on those people with pity, knowing now how many of them would be led to their deaths by the man they idolized.“

— Thomas Sowell

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„The biggest mistake of Hitler, I have to say the main fault, was that under his government these terrific exterminations of men happened, which went on behind the backs of the German nation, which would never have tolerated them, but the government kept these crimes completely secret from the German people.“
— Karl Dönitz
„Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.“
— Joseph Stalin
„It looks like a political triumph for the south, but it is not. The southern people have nothing to dread more than the political triumph of the men who led them into secession. That triumph was fatal to them in 1860. It would be no less now“
— Ulysses S. Grant