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JFK on Hitler

  • 10-04-2010 8:35am
    #1
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭


    does anyone know when this was said. it is not ususally found in his usual repetoire of quotes.

    "Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived... he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made."

    John F. Kennedy,
    President of the United States of America


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  • #2
    FarmerGreen
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    Prelude to Leadership: The European Diary of John F. Kennedy, Summer 1945
    [Washington, DC: Regnery, 1995].

    http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v18/v18n3p30_Kennedy.html


  • #3
    gizmo555
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,948 ✭✭✭gizmo555


    And your ellipsis hides a sentence which puts a completely different slant on the quote as a whole:

    Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country, which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.

    Why did you choose to leave that particular part out?


  • #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I googled the OPs quote and found this!


  • #5
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,228 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    mike65 wrote: »
    I googled the OPs quote and found this!


    I see that even the Daily Mail had a good word for him, as did Viscount Rothermere, which is hardly surprising, since he owned the rag.

    I wonder how much tippex they used on the original versions of some of the other quotes?


  • #6
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Indeed, everyone has a good word for the great genocidal psychotic man


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  • #7
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    mike65 wrote: »
    Indeed, everyone has a good word for the great genocidal psychotic man

    i know just what you mean :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grvpyepkD2o


    .


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