In a speech in Berlin on 30 January 1941 Hitler addressed the question of whether or not he ever made mistakes in light of all his declarations:
         Good Lord, who does not make mistakes?"  Early this morning I read that a British Minister--I do not know who--had in some way or other calculated that I had made seven mistakes in 1940--7 whole mistakes.  The man errs.  I totaled them up myself; I did not make seven mistakes--but 724.  I made further calculations and found that my adversaries had made 4,385,000 mistakes.  And he can believe me.  I have calculated them exactly.  But even with our mistakes we shall manage to carry on.
         MY NEW ORDER  by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 923

         Hitler’s calculations were no better than those of the British Minister because the Fuhrer’s entire career was a mistake plagued with a veritable cornucopia of errors, fallacies, and contradictions permeated with an incalculable number of unjust, inhumane decisions resulting in the destruction of millions of people including his own supporters.  And apparently he was never aware of the incredible degree to which his characterizations of his enemies were applicable to himself.
         Two specific mistakes to which Hitler openly confessed were having made predictions in his most infamous work Mein Kampf and having written the work at all:
         But you know my belief that in politics, one must never say beforehand what one is doing or is going to do.  Only when there is no way of proceeding without making one's action public--only then may one do so.  But even then, one should reveal one's purpose only to those who absolutely must know, and even to these people one should say only as much as it is absolutely necessary to attain the intended objective.  The best thing is surprise action!  If there is a lot of talk beforehand about some great plan, it is generally flogged to death, and the action never occurs.  At the very least, its success is jeopardized.
         That is why the senate is pointless or even dangerous so long as we have not carried out and succeeded in our plans, our program, our goal.
         But if what you say is true [stated Wegener], then you should not have written Mein Kampf beforehand:
         Quite right.  And frequently I regret that I did.  But at the time, when I was in Landsberg Prison after November 9, 1923, I thought everything was over.  I was in captivity, I was deprived of my freedom, the party was expropriated, dissolved--everything seemed at an end, even worse than Germany after the Great War.  I wrote Mein Kampf as a kind of report to the German Volk, chiefly in memory of the martyrs of November 9.  I wrote it out of the narrowness of my cell.
         When I was released, I had Mein Kampf printed.  Perhaps, I hoped, it would serve to rally my old friends.  And that really happened!  That is how it came about.
         But gradually, I saw that many things were, after all, different from the way I had seen them through prison bars and from the way I had figured them out.  And soon I set out to draft changes, improvements.  But they only turned out to be changes for the worse.  I thought about withdrawing the book.  But it was too late.  It made its way through Germany; it was even spread abroad, and what was right and positive about it did not miss its mark.  So I kept hands off.  I made no more changes.  The book even gave me the financial basis for reconstructing the party.  If I were to write it today, a lot would be different.  But today, I would not write it at all!
         For I have learned from that experience.  That is why I tell myself: if I were to communicate to a senate all my most secret plans and purposes, not only would they not remain the secrets of the senate, but they would make their way into the world in a distorted and splintered form.  They would be doing battle with Mein Kampf, at times even with the Party program.  Where is the sense in that?
         HITLER--MEMOIRS OF A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 273

         Rauschnigg further downgraded the book’s importance by saying,
         “But now for the first time I heard derogatory mention made of this book [Mein Kampf] in Hitler's presence, and concluded from this that it was by no means regarded in the inner circles as the binding pronouncement it was given out to be for the masses.”
         THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION, by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 64
 

Chapter 37

         Late in his career Hitler regretted the fact that another individual had not assumed his place in politics so he could have pursued fields much more to his liking such as the arts and philosophy.  To say this also expresses the strong convictions of nearly all humanity is to utter the obvious:
         If somebody else had one day been found to accomplish the work to which I've devoted myself, I would never have entered on the path of politics.  I'd have chosen the arts or philosophy.
         HITLER'S TABLE TALK, 1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 251

         It's against my own inclinations that I devoted myself to politics.  I don't see anything in politics, anyway, but a means to an end.  Some people suppose it would deeply grieve me to give up the activity that occupies me at this moment.  They are deeply mistaken, for the finest day of my life will be that on which I leave politics behind me, with its griefs and torments.  When the war's over and I have the sense of having accomplished my duties, I shall retire.
         HITLER'S TABLE TALK, 1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 250

         The ‘finest day’ in the life of nearly all Europeans was when his wish was granted and he departed the arena of politics.

         While speaking at the end of WWII about fascism and its attraction to millions, the noted historian Frederick L. Schumann issued some perspicacious remarks that are undoubtedly well worth noting by all Americans in light of current events.
         “Here, writ large, are credos that many Americans are still quite prepared to except if only they are couched in a slightly different vocabulary.  Here is but a pathological exaggeration of racial discrimination, national conceit, fear of the "Red Menace," contempt for democracy, intolerance of dissent, imperial pretensions, and the gospel of "My country, right or wrong!"
         ... But it is perfectly possible that the victors [of WWII], without knowing what they do, may yet embrace the vices of the vanquished and move towards goals as yet unseen which will be no less monstrous than those which Hitler has always served.  If the America of tomorrow becomes a land of fear and, therefore, a haven of labor-baiters, Red-hunters, Jew-haters and irresponsible chauvinists, victory will be wasted, peace will be lost, and freedom may perish in a chaos of disunity, breeding attitudes and actions no less hideous and destructive than those begotten by the demon of Berchtesgaden.”
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page vi

         One would be challenged to find a more appropriate encapsulation to Hitler’s odious career and this lengthy citation of his loathsome quotations than that provided by the Fuhrer himself in words that are equally applicable to George W. Bush and his Rightist allies:
         One day I said to one of these gentlemen: The German nation has survived the period of the great migrations, the wars with the Romans, the onslaughts of the Huns, the Magyars and Mongols, the Thirty Years' War, the campaigns of Frederick the Great and Napoleon--and it will no doubt survive even my rule!
         HITLER'S TABLE TALK, 1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 636

         Germany has, indeed, survived the atrocious reign of Hitler and his sick clientele and no doubt the United States will survive Bush’s rule as well, but at what cost is another matter and yet to be determined.

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