5 Quotes & Sayings By William L Shirer

William L. Shirer was the author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a best-selling book which became the standard history text in American schools. He went on to publish several other books on Nazi Germany, including The Collapse of the Third Republic, The Last Days of Hitler, his memoir, and Berlin Diary, which chronicled his time in Berlin during the final days of World War II.

All the good things on this earth are trophy cups....
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All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them.from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education William L. Shirer
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Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon. William L. Shirer
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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
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To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had – or would shortly assume – the aura of a truly charismatic leader. They were to follow him blindly, as if he possessed a divine judgment, for the next twelve tempestuous years. William L. Shirer