How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Toward the end of their conference Chamberlain had extracted a promise from Hitler that he would take no military action until they had again conferred. In this period the Prime Minister had great confidence in the Fuehrer's word, remarking privately a day or two later, "In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word." (3.12.160)
You have got to be kidding us. What a fool.
Quote #8
There was a spontaneous movement to raise a "National Fund of Thanksgiving" in Chamberlain's honor, which he graciously turned down. Only Duff Cooper, the First Lord of the Admiralty, resigned from the cabinet, and when in the ensuing Commons debate Winston Churchill, still a voice in the wilderness, began to utter his memorable words, "We have sustained a total, unmitigated defeat," he was forced to pause, as he later recorded, until the storm of protest against such a remark had subsided. (3.12.368).
Winston Churchill is one of the few international statesmen whom Shirer represents as having had his head on straight when it came to Hitler. He thought Chamberlain's agreement was a complete folly.
Quote #9
By a hypnotism that defies explanation—at least by a non-German—Hitler held the allegiance and trust of this remarkable people to the last. It was inevitable that they would follow him blindly, like dumb cattle but also with a touching faith and even an enthusiasm that raised them above the animal herd, over the precipice to the destruction of the nation. (5.29.379)
Here's the author again condemning the folly of the whole German nation to blindly follow their Fuehrer even as he's leading them over the cliff.