Quote#Freedom
[Hitler] appeared free of personal ambition ... wasn't ashamed of his…
Quote byGeorge Lansbury · 1859–1940
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: His impressions of Adolf Hitler after meeting him in April 1937, quoted in Ronald Blythe, The Age of Illusion: England in the Twenties and Thirties (1964), p. 291.
English (original)
[Hitler] appeared free of personal ambition ... wasn't ashamed of his humble start in life ... lived in the country rather than the town ... was a bachelor who liked children and old people ... and was obviously lonely. I wished that I could have gone to Berchtesgaden and stayed with him for a little while. I felt that Christianity in its purest sense might have had a chance with him.
— George Lansbury
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