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Neville Chamberlain
Adolph Hitler was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. In 1938, Hitler met with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on three separate occasions to discuss Hitler’s intentions to invade the Sudetenland, a move Chamberlain feared would lead to a world war. Hitler successfully convinced Chamberlain that he only wanted to invade the Sudetenland (an ethnically German region of Czechoslovakia) and had no interest in a world war. The men signed an agreement, and Chamberlain returned to the United Kingdom confident in the success of the negotiations. But in March 1939, Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia, and in September 1939, he invaded Poland, which initiated World War II. Gladwell includes Chamberlain’s failed negotiations with Hitler to explore the odd phenomenon that people can fail to recognize when someone is lying to their face.
Adolph Hitler Quotes in Talking to Strangers
The Talking to Strangers quotes below are all either spoken by Adolph Hitler or refer to Adolph Hitler. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“Yesterday afternoon I had a long talk with Herr Hitler,” he said. “I feel satisfied now that each of us fully understands what is in the mind of the other.”
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We think we can easily see into the hearts of others based on the flimsiest of clues. We jump at the chance to judge strangers. We would never do that to ourselves, of course. We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the stranger is easy.
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Adolph Hitler Quotes in Talking to Strangers
The Talking to Strangers quotes below are all either spoken by Adolph Hitler or refer to Adolph Hitler. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2
Quotes
“Yesterday afternoon I had a long talk with Herr Hitler,” he said. “I feel satisfied now that each of us fully understands what is in the mind of the other.”
Related Characters:
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Explanation and Analysis:
We think we can easily see into the hearts of others based on the flimsiest of clues. We jump at the chance to judge strangers. We would never do that to ourselves, of course. We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the stranger is easy.
