How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
The depression which spread over the world like a great conflagration toward the end of 1929 gave Adolf Hitler his opportunity, and he made the most of it. Like most great revolutionaries he could thrive only in evil times, at first when the masses were unemployed, hungry and desperate, and later when they were intoxicated by war. (2.5.98)
When times are good, people don't want change.
Quote #5
The hard-pressed people were demanding a way out of their sorry predicament. The millions of unemployed wanted jobs. The shopkeepers wanted help. Some four million youths who had come of voting age since the last election wanted some prospect of a future that would at least give them a living. To all the millions of discontented Hitler in a whirlwind campaign offered what seemed to them, in their misery, some measure of hope. […] To hopeless, hungry men seeking not only relief but new faith and new gods, the appeal was not without effect. (2.5.104)
Those first four sentences sound a little too familiar; you read this stuff everyday in the newspaper—um, we mean your newsfeed. Fortunately, there aren't any Hitlers out there at the moment, but you can see how easy it is for politicians to promise solutions for social problems and how tempting it is to believe them.
Quote #6
Everyone among the people is talking of a second revolution which must come. That means that the first revolution is not at an end. Now we shall settle with the Reaktion. The revolution must nowhere come to a halt. (2.7.85)
In this passage, Shirer is quoting an entry, made in April 1933, from the Goebbel's diary. Like Ernst Roehm and a number of other prominent Nazis, Goebbels believed (at first) that Hitler's appointment as Chancellor would allow the Nazis to carry out the "socialist" aspects of the party's cause.