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“Hitler had an unprecedented opportunity … to create something new. However, besides the fact that he knows absolutely nothing about matters economic, he cannot even fully understand his economic advisers. He is impulsive and always follows his last impressions, but he is not energetic. His contant worry has ever been to keep himself in power. In addition to this, he believes that he alone is a great man, and all others non-entities.” (p. 135)

“It has come to the point where even Hitler is afraid of the Gestapo. These scoundrels know how to turn this to their profit. They constantly tell him that they must protect him, and they protect him so well that he is almost their prisoner.” (pp. 137-138)

“Four months before the war one of Hitler’s privy councillors, Secretary of State Wilhelm Keppler, after a dinner given by the President of the Reichsbank, said in my presence,”It is in our interest to maintain maximum disorder in Europe.” This, as a principle of diplomacy, is monstrous. Leaders who are prepared to allow the policy of a great country to be guided by this principle are madmen and criminals and deserve to be placed in a position where they can do no further harm.” (p. 251)

–Quotes from I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen