I've seen the following quote a couple of times (namely, the TV Tropes page for Nazi Germany and the beginning of Robert Harris' Fatherland):
"The hundred million self-confident German masters were to be brutally installed in Europe and secured in power by a monopoly of technical civilization and the slave labour of a dwindling native population of neglected, diseased, illiterate cretins, in order that they might have leisure to buzz along infinite autobahnen, admire the Strength-Through-Joy Hostel, the party headquarters, the military museum and the planetarium which their Führer would have built in Linz (his new Hitleropolis), trot round local picture galleries and listen over their cream buns to endless recordings of The Merry Widow. This was to be the German Millennium, from which even the imagination was to have no means of escape."
—Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Mind of Adolf Hitler
I really like it (not because I'm a fan of Nazis, of course), but while there was a book called The Mind of Adolf Hitler, and a historian named Hugh Trevor-Roper, I can't connect the two. Is this a real quote, and if so, can someone find the rest of the text?
"The hundred million self-confident German masters were to be brutally installed in Europe and secured in power by a monopoly of technical civilization and the slave labour of a dwindling native population of neglected, diseased, illiterate cretins, in order that they might have leisure to buzz along infinite autobahnen, admire the Strength-Through-Joy Hostel, the party headquarters, the military museum and the planetarium which their Führer would have built in Linz (his new Hitleropolis), trot round local picture galleries and listen over their cream buns to endless recordings of The Merry Widow. This was to be the German Millennium, from which even the imagination was to have no means of escape."
—Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Mind of Adolf Hitler
I really like it (not because I'm a fan of Nazis, of course), but while there was a book called The Mind of Adolf Hitler, and a historian named Hugh Trevor-Roper, I can't connect the two. Is this a real quote, and if so, can someone find the rest of the text?