Would anyone be interested in reading some quotes about Adolf Hitler taken from the Ian Kershaw's "Hitler: A Biography"?
I will post quotations in this thread focusing on his youth and his personality as perceived by others.
Please bump if you're interested.
>>67523370
go for it OP
Go on then
I will keep posting. If anybody has specific requests about a certain topic I will try my best to find a relevant quotation. My focus is on Adolf's life between his birth and the age of around 25 when he joined the army.
On his teacher's memory of the young Adolf
>"his former class teacher, Dr Eduard Huemer, recalled Adolf as a thin, pale youth commuting between Linz and Leonding, a boy not making full use of his talent, lacking in application, and unable to accommodate himself to school discipline. He characterized him as stubborn, high-handed, dogmatic, and hot tempered. Strictures from his teachers were received with a scarcely concealed insolence"
p.26
On Adolf's romantic life
>"[Hitler had] no relations with any woman during the years of their acquaintance in both Linz and Vienna. This would not alter during his remaining years in the Austrian capital. None of the accounts of Hitler's time in the Men's Home gives a hint of any women in his life. When his circle of acquaintances got round to discussing women - and, doubtless, their own former girlfriends and sexual experiences - the best Hitler could come up with was a veiled reference to Stefanie, who had been his 'first love', though 'she never knew it, because he never told her'. The impression left with Reinhold Hanisch, an acquaintance from that time, was that 'Hitler had very little respect for the female sex, but very austere ideas about relations between men and women. He often said that, if men only wanted to, they could adopt a strictly moral way of living.'"
p.30
On Adolf's ideal woman
>"Probably, he was frightened of women - certainly of their sexuality. Hitler later described his own ideal woman as 'a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid'. His assertion that a woman 'would rather bow to a strong man than dominate a weakling' may well have been a compensatory projection of his own sexual complexes."
p.30
On the death of Adolf's mother
>"The sharp deterioration in her condition brought Adolf back from Vienna to be told by Dr Bloch, towards the end of October, that his mother’s condition was hopeless. Deeply affected by the news, Adolf was more than dutiful.Both his sister, Paula, and Dr Bloch later testified to his devoted and ‘indefatigable’ care for his dying mother.But despite Dr Bloch’s close medical attention,Klara’s health worsened rapidly during the autumn. On 21 December 1907, aged forty-seven, she passed away quietly.Though he had witnessed many deathbed scenes, recalled Dr Bloch, ‘I have never seen anyone so prostrate with grief as Adolf Hitler.’ His mother’s death was ‘a dreadful blow’, Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, ‘particularly for me’. He felt alone and bereft at her passing. He had lost the one person for whom he had ever felt close affection and warmth.
p.28
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On Adolf's view of sexuality
>"But his prudishness went far beyond this. It amounted [...] to a deep disgust and repugnance at sexual activity. Hitler avoided contact with women, meeting with cold indifference during visits to the opera alleged attempts by young women, probably seeing him as something of an oddity, to flirt with or tease him. He was repelled by homosexuality. He refrained from masturbation. Prostitution horrified, but fascinated, him. He associated it with venereal disease, which petrified him."
p.30
On Adolf's poverty during his early twenties
>"During the next months, Hitler did learn the meaning of poverty. [...] During the wet and cold autumn of 1909 he lived rough, sleeping in the open, as long as the weather held, probably in cheap lodgings when conditions forced him indoors. [...] Hitler had now reached rock-bottom. Some time in the weeks before Christmas 1909, thin and bedraggled, in filthy, lice-ridden clothes, his feet sore from walking around, Hitler joined the human flotsam and jetsam finding their way to the large, recently established doss-house for the homeless in Meidling. [...] The twenty-year-old would-be artistic genius had joined the tramps, winos, and down-and-outs in society's basement."
p.32
On Adolf's homelessness in Vienna
>"[Hanisch] encountered a miserable-looking Hitler, down at heel in a shabby blue check suit, tired and hungry, in the hostel dormitory one late autumn night, [...] The hostel was a night-shelter offering short-term accommodation only [...] Hitler, looking in a sorry state and in depressed mood, went in the mornings along with other destitutes to a nearby convent in Gumpendorferstrase where the nuns doled out soup. The time was otherwise spent visiting public warming-rooms, or trying to earn a bit of money. Hanisch took him off to shovel snow, but without an overcoat Hitler was in no condition to stick at it for long. He offered to carry bags for passengers at the Westbahnhof, but his appearance probably did not win him many customers."
p.32
On Adolf's lonely lifestyle in Munich
>"As in Vienna, Hitler was polite but distant, self-contained, withdrawn, and apparently without friends [...]. Frau Popp [landlord] could not recall Hitler having a single visitor in the entire two years of his tenancy. He lived simply and frugally, preparing his paintings during the day and reading at night."
p.38
he was a true robot, and a meek, modest man
On Adolf's vegetative state of living
>"Since his failure in the Art Academy in 1907, he had vegetated, resigned to the fact that he would not become a great artist, now cherishing a pipe-dream that he would somehow become a notable architect - though with no plans for or realistic hope of fulfilling this ambition. Seven years after that failure, the 'nobody of Vienna', now in Munich, remained a drop-out and nonentity, futilely angry at a world which had rejected him. He was still without any career prospects, without qualifications or any expectation of gaining them, without any capacity for forging close and lasting friendships, and without real hope of coming to terms with himself - or with a society he despised for his own failure."
p.39
On Adolf's fellow soldiers / comrades during World War 1
>"His lack of a sense of fun made him an easy target for good-natured ribbing. 'What about looking around for a Mamsell?' suggested a telephonist one day. 'I'd die of shame looking for sex with a French girl,' interjected Hitler, to a burst of laughter from the others. 'Look at the monk,' one said. Hitler's retort was: 'Have you no German sense of honour left at all?' Though his quirkiness singled him out from the rest of his group, Hitler's relations with his immediate comrades were generally good."
p.40
More on Adolf's fellow soldiers / comrades during World War 1
>"For all that they got on well with him, they thought 'Adi', as they called him, was distinctly odd. They referred to him as 'the artist' and were struck by the fact that he received no mail or parcels (even at Christmas) after about mid-1915, never spoke of family or friends, neither smoked nor drank, showed no interest in visits to brothels, and used to sit for hours in a corner of the dug-out, brooding or reading. [...] One of his closest comrades, Balthasar Brandmayer [...] described his first impressions of Hitler at the end of May 1915: almost skeletal in appearance, dark eyes hooded in a sallow complexion, untrimmed moustache, sitting in a corner buried in a newspaper, occasionally taking a sip of tea, seldom joining in the banter of the group. He seemed an oddity, shaking his head disapprovingly at silly, light-hearted remarks, not even joining in the usual soldiers' moans, gripes, and jibes. 'Haven't you ever loved a girl?' Brandmayer asked Hitler. 'Look, Brandmoiri,' was the straight-faced reply, 'I've never had time for anything like that, and I'll never get round to it.' His only real affection seems to have been for his dog, Foxl, a white terrier that had strayed across from enemy lines."
p.40
NEET, lazy but vaguely talented at something, absolute failure with the opposite sex, Hitler truly is the original /pol/ posting socially inept virgin.
Moar plz.
>>67525903
>He was still without any career prospects, without qualifications or any expectation of gaining them, without any capacity for forging close and lasting friendships, and without real hope of coming to terms with himself - or with a society he despised for his own failure."
>tfw Hitler
On Adolf's behaviour while living in a Vienna homeless shelter
>"he had a way, noted Honisch [a fellow resident], of keeping his distance from the others and 'not letting anyone come too close'. He could be withdrawn, sunk in a book or his own thoughts. But he was known to have a quick temper. This could flare up at any time, particularly in the frequent political debates that took place. Hitler's strong views on politics were plain to all. He would often sit quietly when a discussion started up, putting in the odd word here or there but otherwise carrying on with his drawing. If he took exception to something said, however, he would jump up from his place, hurling his brush or pencil on the table, and heatedly and forcefully make himself felt before, on occasion, breaking off in mid-flow and with a wave of resignation at the incomprehension of his comrades, taking up his drawing again."
p.34
On the confusion as to how someone like Adolf could lead a nation
>"How do we explain how someone with so few intellectual gifts and social attributes, someone no more than an empty vessel outside his political life, unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company, incapable it seems of genuine friendship, without the background that bred high office, without even any experience of government before becoming Reich Chancellor, could nevertheless have such an immense historical impact, could make the entire world hold its breath?"
p.22
>tfw hitler would've browsed 4chan if he were around today.
On Adolf's character at age nineteen
>"The indolence in lifestyle but accompanied by manic enthusiasm and energy sucked into his fantasies, the dilettantism, the lack of reality and sense of proportion, the opinionated autodidactism, the egocentrism, the quirky intolerance, the sudden rise to anger and the outbursts of rage, the diatribes of venom poured out on everyone and everything blocking the rise of the great artist – all these can be seen in the nineteen-year-old Hitler"
p.31
On Adolf's attempt to flirt with the wife of a male friend
>"Hitler’s ‘coffee-house tirades, his restlessness, his resentments against possible rivals in the party leadership, his distaste for systematic work, his paranoid outbursts of hatred’ were seen by Putzi Hanfstaengl as a sign of sexual deficiency.This was no more than guesswork.But Hitler’s relations with women were indeed odd in some ways. Why this was so can only be surmised.Yet here, too, he was often acting out a role. On one occasion, he took advantage of Putzi Hanfstaengl’s brief absence from the room to fall on his knees in front of Helene Hanfstaengl, describing himself as her slave and bemoaning the fate that had led him to her too late. When Helene told him of the incident,
Putzi put it down to Hitler’s need to play the role of the languishing troubadour from time to time."
p.77
Alright m8, what does it say about the four by twos?
>>67528204
I don't know what that is sorry
>>67528721
You 'aving a giraffe or what m8?
Its a rhyming slang, I'm enquiring what the book says about Jews.
>>67528121
I'M DYING LAUREN
>>67529229
Nothing substantial in the period I have focused on, up until Adolf was around 25 and fought in the First World War. Kubizek, his only friend during his youth, claimed Adolf had very little to say about the Jews though his disgust at the number of immigrants in Vienna was specifically focused on the Jews. He claimed that he had joined an anti-semitic group though the claim has been contested. The individuals he lived with during his two years at a home for homeless men claimed he had very strong political opinions but very little interest in the Jews. There is evidence that he began reading the racist publication Ostara in his early 20s, though the people who have claimed to know him from the time and to have seen him reading these magazines and talking about the jewish problem have been rather shady characters.
It's worth pointing out that Adolf Hitler was well into his 30s when he first had sex. Heinrich Himmler was 28 years old. Joseph Goebbels was around 35 years old. One thing I've found in each case is something like an obsession with proper conduct between the sexes.
>>67530177
>shady characters
Mmm...
