“My view is that Hitler and the Nazis have grown out of the heart of German culture – a cancer, maybe, but a uniquely German phenomenon. Some very clever men have given me hell for holding this opinion. They insist the same thing could have happened anywhere, given the same conditions: defeat in a major war, a harsh peace treaty, ruinous inflation, mass unemployment, communism on the march, anarchy in the streets – all leading to the rise of a demagogue, and a reign of terror.”
