It is said Trump kept a copy of Hitler's collected speeches, "My New Order" on his bedside table and studied it from time to time over the years. It was one of his favorite books in the past apparently. Hitler and Trump are not actually strange bedfellows. They are in many ways much alike. Hitler was after all also a brilliant madman, the consummate politician, and someone who knew equally well the weaknesses of his audience, whether they be friends or enemies.
Here are some interesting quotes from various volumes of Mein Kampf:
“Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable
stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the
fight for the ‘remaking’ of the Reich as they call it.”
[Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf” Vol. 2 Chapter 1]
“For this, to be sure, from the child’s primer down to the last
newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising
pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this
one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor
patriots: ‘Lord, make us free!’ is transformed in the brain of the
smallest boy into the burning plea: ‘Almighty God, bless our arms
when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now
whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!’
[Adolf Hitler’s prayer, “Mein Kampf”, Vol. 2 Chapter 13]
“It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale
propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological
instincts of the broad masses of its adherents.”
[Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf”, Vol. 1, Chapter 3]
“Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very
first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always
and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence
which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering
and uncertain.”
[Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf”, Vol. 1, Chapter 5]
“Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along
the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord’s grace
smiled on His ungrateful children.”
[Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf”, Vol. 1, Chapter 7, reflecting on World
War I]
Martin Luther’s teachings]
“Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to
change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the
impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times
consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than
in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which
drove them forward.”
[Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf” Vol. 1 Chapter 12]
“The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this
world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which,
fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its
will against all others.”
[Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf” Vol. 1 Chapter 12]
Today Christians … stand at the head of [this country]… I pledge
that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy
Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian
spirit … We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in
literature, in the theater, and in the press – in short, we want to
burn out the *poison of immorality* which has entered into our whole
life and culture as a result of *liberal excess* during the past …
(few) years.”
[The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1 (London, Oxford
University Press, 1942), pg. 871-872]