Hitler: ‘Only one thing could have broken our movement – if the adversary had understood its principle and from the first day had smashed, with the most extreme brutality, the nucleus of our new movement.’
Goebbels: ‘If the enemy had known how weak we were, it would probably have reduced us to jelly…. It would have crushed in blood the very beginning of our work.’
– Daniel Guerin in “Fascism and Big Business” (1939)