William L. Shirer Citas

• Quizá algún día Estados Unidos se vuelva fascista democráticamente, por votación popular.

  William L. Shirer

  Popular Vote, America, Voting

  The New York Times, p. 36, December 29, 1969.

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• No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.

  William L. Shirer

  Party, Responsibility, Errors

  William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• La Historia debe hablar por sí misma. Un historiador se da por satisfecho si ha sido capaz de arrojar más luz.

  William L. Shirer

  Light, Able, Speak

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• I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state... a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it.

  William L. Shirer

  Lying, Taken, Years

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.423, RosettaBooks

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• But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.

  William L. Shirer

  History, Drunk, Imagination

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• Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights and such a sorry end, was a person of undoubted, if evil genius. It is true that in the German people, as a mysterious Providence and centuries of experience had molded them up to that time, he found a natural instrument which he was able to shape to his own sinister ends.

  William L. Shirer

  Sorry, History, Evil

  William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.

  William L. Shirer

  Happiness, Reflection, Self

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• In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.

  William L. Shirer

  War, Suicidal, Long

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists.

  William L. Shirer

  Christian, Religious, Germany

  William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler from his limb and strengthened his position in Europe, in Germany, in the Army, beyond anything that could have been imagined a few weeks before. It also added immeasurably to the power of the Third Reich vis-a-vis the Western democracies and the Soviet Union.

  William L. Shirer

  Army, Journey, Europe

  "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany". Book by William L. Shirer, 1960.

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• Hasta que no pasemos por ello nosotros mismos, hasta que nuestra gente no se acobarde en los refugios de New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Ángeles y otros lugares mientras los edificios se derrumban sobre sus cabezas y estallan en llamas, y los cadáveres se esparcen y, cuando termina el día o la noche, emergen entre los escombros para encontrar a algunos de sus seres queridos destrozados, sus casas destruidas, sus hospitales, iglesias y escuelas demolidas, sólo después de esa horrible experiencia nos daremos cuenta de lo que estamos infligiendo al pueblo de Indochina.

  William L. Shirer

  New York, War, Home

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• Adolf Hitler es probablemente el último de los grandes aventureros-conquistadores en la tradición de Alejandro, César y Napoleón, y el Tercer Reich el último de los imperios que emprendieron el camino emprendido anteriormente por Francia, Roma y Macedonia. La invención repentina de la bomba de hidrógeno, de los misiles balísticos y de los cohetes capaces de alcanzar la Luna ha bajado el telón de esta fase de la historia.

  William L. Shirer

  Taken, Moon, Rome

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.

  William L. Shirer

  Soul, Mind, True Happiness

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