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Ian Kershaw, né le 29 avril 1943 à Oldham, est un historien britannique connu pour ses travaux sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Adolf Hitler et le nazisme. Il est l'auteur d'une biographie en deux tomes, une des principales références actuelles sur le dictateur allemand, et de l'ouvrage Hitler – Essai sur le charisme en politique, qui explique comment la dictature nazie a pu s'installer. Il en voit les causes primordiales dans Hitler lui-même, la forte xénophobie traditionnelle, une société déboussolée, des élites inconscientes et autoritaires et le traumatisme de la Première Guerre mondiale et la guerre civile qui a suivi : l'une des avancées marquantes de son analyse du système hitlérien repose sur la notion de pouvoir charismatique. Wikipedia  

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“If indeed, as was later alleged, [Hitler] voiced support for the Social Democrats in preference to the Communists, it was presumably viewed as a choice of the lesser of two evils.”

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Source: Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (1999), p. 120

“Probably in April of 1919, with the Munich ruled by the Communist Councils, [Hitler] wore, along with almost all the soldiers of the Munich garrison, the revolutionary red armband. That Hitler stood back and took no part whatsoever in the ‘liberation’ of Munich from the Räterepublik is said to have brought him later scornful reproaches from Ernst Röhm.”

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Source: Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (1999), p. 120

“German’ socialism came to be wholly associated with the extreme anti-liberal politics of the antisemitic and völkisch movement. The appeal here was mainly to the lower-middle classes—traders, craftsmen, small farmers, lower civil servants—and rooted in a combination of antisemitism, extreme nationalism, and vehement anti-capitalism”

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usually interpreted as ‘Jewish’ capitalism
Source: Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (1999), p. 135

“In a pointed remark when defending Esser in 1921 against attacks from within the party, Hitler commented: ‘Everyone was at one time a Social Democrat.”

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Source: Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (1999), p. 119

“Not only, then, did Hitler do nothing to assist in the crushing of Munich’s ‘Red Republic’; he was an elected representative of his battalion during this whole period of existence. How to interpret this evidence is, nevertheless, not altogether clear. Since the Munich garrison had firmly backed the revolution since November, and again in April supported the radical move to the Räterepublik, the obvious implication must be that Hitler, in order to have been elected as a soldiers’ representative, voiced in these months the views of the socialist governments he later denounced with every fibre of his body as ‘criminal.”

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Source: Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (1999), p. 118

“For Catholics—the other sub-culture which Nazism found greatest difficulty in penetrating, before and after 1933—Hitler was above all seen as the head of a ‘godless’, anti-Christian movement.”

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Source: Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (1999), p. 412

“On the nationalist-conservative Right… Hitler was portrayed for the most part as intransigent and irresponsible, a wild and vulgar demagogue, not a statesman, an obstacle to political recovery, the head of an extreme movement with menacing socialistic tendencies.”

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Source: Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (1999), p. 412

“Ernst Toller reported that a fellow-prisoner also interned for involvement in the Räterepublik had met Hitler in a Munich barracks during the first months after the revolution, and that the latter had then been calling himself a Social Democrat. Konrad Heiden remarked that, during the time of the Councils Republic, Hitler had, in heated discussions among his comrades, voiced support for the Social Democratic government against the of the Communists.”

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Source: Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (1999), pp. 118-119

“The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.”

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As quoted in Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0198219229 (1983), p. 277.

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