How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
It is almost like a dream... a fairy tale... The new Reich has been born. Fourteen years of work have been crowned with victory. The German revolution has begun! (1.1.12)
So wrote Paul Joseph Goebbels in his diary on the night of Monday, January 30, 1933—the day that Hitler was appointed Chancellor of the German Reich. For Goebbels and Hitler, Nazi power in Germany was synonymous with "revolution." It would be different, that's for sure.
Quote #2
Nazism appeared to be a dying cause. It had mushroomed on the country's misfortunes; now that the nation's outlook was suddenly bright it was rapidly withering away. Or so most Germans and foreign observers believed. (1.4.147)
Shirer suggests here that the success of the Nazi "revolution" was due—at least in part—to Hitler's ability to make the most of hardship and despair in Germany. Germans were hoping for a transformation of their economy and government. They got it.
Quote #3
"We recognized," he said, in recalling the days when the party was being reformed after the putsch, "that it is not enough to overthrow the old State, but that the new State must previously have been built up and be practically ready to one's hand... In 1933 it was no longer a question of overthrowing a state by an act of violence; meanwhile the new State had been built up and all that remained was to destroy the last remnants of the old State—and that took but a few hours." (2.5.18)
Although Hitler's words are exaggerated (it did take the Nazis more than just "a few hours" to destroy the remains of the Weimar Republic after Hitler became Chancellor), they accurately describe the strategy that Hitler used to create a Nazi "state within a state" before he seized power in Germany. When the time came, all he had to do was build on the foundations he'd already laid.