François Furet on Adolf Hitler

“Hitler did a better job than Stalin of accomplishing Lenin's totalitarian promises—better, too, than Mussolini,...”

“In many thundering discourses, Hitler expressed his respect, if not admiration for Stalinist Communism and its leader.”

“What was new about Hitler and Stalin was what Friedrich Meinecke, in an attempt shortly after World War II to express his horror at Hitler's moral nihilism, called a 'Machiavellianism of the masses'.”