The menace was Bolshevism. It was difficult to make people realize this, they think it is a fanatical obsession, but it was a real danger of which pe… - Adolf Hitler

To ‘learn‘ history means to seek and find the forces which are the causes leading to those effects which we subsequently perceive as historical events.

I never loved my father, [he used to say,] but feared him. He was prone to rages and would resort to violence. My poor mother would then always be afraid for me. When I read Karl May once that it was a sign of bravery to hide one's pain, I decided that when he beat me the next time I would make no sound. When it happened – I knew my mother was standing anxiously at the door – I counted every stroke out loud. Mother thought I had gone mad when I reported to her with a beaming smile, 'Thirty-two strokes father gave me!' From that day I never needed to repeat the experiment, for my father never beat me again.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. — Speeches