Top 5 Joachim Fest Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them. But there is an impulse within them, favored by their natures and reinforced by their habits, which they do not resist; it continues to propel them forward as long as they have a remnant of strength. He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.1 Leopold von Ranke.”

— Joachim Fest

2. “The program Hitler outlined rejected everything: it was anticapitalistic and antiproletarian, revolutionary and restorational; it conjured up its dire visions of the future along with nostalgic pictures of the good old days.”

— Joachim Fest

3. “The need to magnify themselves, to bestir themselves, is characteristic of all illegitimates.”

— Joachim Fest

4. “The problems of the moment must never place the principle in doubt.”

— Joachim Fest

5. “Propaganda must above all be popular, he argued; it must not be aimed toward the intelligentsia but “always and exclusively to the masses,” and its level “must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.”

— Joachim Fest

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