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Wikipedia Summary for Alan Bullock
Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock, (13 December 1914 – 2 February 2004) was a British historian. He is best known for his book Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952), the first comprehensive biography of Adolf Hitler, which influenced many other Hitler biographies.
Evil is a form of incompetence.
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.
Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.