QUOTE: Was there
no resistance to his disastrous projects? There was. But it was too feeble, too
weak and too late to succeed... The fact is that Hitler was beloved by his
people—not the military, at least not in the beginning, but by the average
Germans who pledged to him an affection, a tenderness and a fidelity that
bordered on the irrational... Winston Churchill was the only man of state who
unmasked Hitler immediately and refused to let himself be duped by Hitler's
repeated promises that this time he was making his "last territorial
demand." ... In his own "logic," Hitler was persuaded for a
fairly long time that the German and British people had every reason to get
along and divide up spheres of influence throughout the world. He did not
understand British obstinacy in its resistance to his racial philosophy and to
the practical ends it engendered... After Rommel's defeat in North Africa, after the debacle
at Stalingrad and even when the landings in Normandy were imminent, Hitler and
his entourage still had the mind to come up with the Final Solution. In his
testament, drafted in a underground bunker just hours before his suicide in
Berlin, Hitler returns again to this hatred of the Jewish people that had never
left him. But in the same testament, he settles his score with the German
people. He wants them to be sacked, destroyed, reduced to misery and shame for
having failed him by denying him his glory. The former corporal become
commander in chief of all his armies and convinced of his strategic and
political genius was not prepared to recognize his own responsibility for the
defeat of his Reich. [in TIME (13
April 1998)]
AUTHOR: Elie Wiesel AKA Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE (born September 30, 1928) is a
Romanian-born Jewish-American professor and political activist. He is the
author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as
a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel
is also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner Journal.
When Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Norwegian Nobel
Committee called him a "messenger to mankind," stating that through
his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total
humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death
camps", as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace",
Wiesel had delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human
dignity" to humanity.
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