Alan Bullock
Alan Bullock
Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullockwas a British historian. He is best known for his book Hitler: A Study in Tyrannywhich was the first comprehensive biography of Adolf Hitler and influenced many other major biographies of Hitler...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth13 December 1914
country political democracy
If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation. A nation's sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.
past race nuclear-disarmament
History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.
evil good-and-evil incompetence
Evil is a form of incompetence.
people way corruption
The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.
democracy speech committees
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
law enabling foundation
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
integrity patriotic utterance
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.
determination self principles
Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
weekend alive boring
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
names
Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.