Adolf Hitler (n.) had a recipe: first simplify, then repeat endlessly.

Peter Sloterdijk on Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Jewish

dad joke

bunker

trivia

Austrian

art school

homelessness

chemical warfare

mustache

World War I (WWI)

gas mask

prison

coup

election

Nobel Prize

Joseph Stalin

time travel

At the present time, Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau; Roosevelt and Churchill, that of Locke.

is a veritable reductio ad absurdum of "progressive" thought.

[Hitler is] a veritable reductio ad absurdum of "progressive" thought. (1943)

is the negation of God erected into a system of Government.

It seems likely that more will be written about Adolf Hitler than about anyone else in history with the exception of Jesus Christ. … As long as people are fascinated by the range and depth of evil, Hitler will find readers, for he was the Molech who devoured human beings in a regime that was "the negation of God erected into a system of Government."

is the yardstick that lets everything shorter than it call itself acceptable

had a recipe: first simplify, then repeat endlessly.

Hitler's recipe is therefore: First simplify, then repeat endlessly. This will be effective.

worked in the same branch as actors do: he created illusions.

Yes, as he convinced many millions of Germans. It’s not without good reason that comedies about Hitler often concern actors who should play him. Just think about Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” (1940) or Ernst Lubitsch’s “To Be or not To Be” (1942). There’s no doubt about it, Hitler worked in the same branch as we do: he created illusions.

hated, above all else, not Communism, but Austria-Hungary, on account of its tolerance for ‘inferiors’.

For Hitler first hatred was not Communism, but Austria-Hungary... And he loathed it for what? For its tolerance! He wanted eighty million Germans to rule with an iron hand an empire of eighty million ‘inferiors’—Czechs, Slovaks, Magyars, Jews, Serbs, Poles and Croats.

is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon.

Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon. In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, should it come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on an uninhabited planet.

Holocaust

concentration camp

animal rights

syphilis

disease

penis

farting

museum

J.R.R. Tolkien

genocide

demanded, in a uniquely transparent form, self-confidence without self-experience: suggestion against perception.

Hitler demands, in a uniquely transparent form of expression, what characterizes the young and neoconservatives: self-confidence without self-experience; suggestion against perception.

found, the moment he made himself the executor of those buried in the mud, the magical contact between his private neurosis and the national neurosis.

At that moment when he makes himself into the executor of those buried in the mud ("But I decided . . . "), his private neurosis discovers the magical contact with the national neurosis.

had command of autosuggestion to such an extraordinary extent that, being sure of his cause, he could afford to reveal his recipe.

Hitler had command of this autosuggestive ability to such an extraordinary extent that, being sure of his cause, he could afford to reveal his recipe.

projected his own catastrophile structure onto his opponents; the real winner of the catastrophe was he himself, who discovered his calling in it.

With this, Hitler projects his own catastrophile structure onto the opponent. For the real winner as a result of the catastrophe had been he himself— who discovered his calling in it.

published in Mein Kampf the grammar of stupefaction, a great act of involuntary enlightenment that was not understood, and he knew from the start that it would not be understood.

In the fateful year 1925, Hitler published in Mein Kampf the grammar of stupefaction; this may be understood as a great act of involuntary enlightenment. However, it was not understood, and Hitler knew from the start that it would not be understood.

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