Hitler's Critique of American Materialism

"I like an Englishman a thousand times better than an American," Hitler is said to have remarked." Source of caption and photo: online version of the NYT article quoted and cited below.
Here are some musings by Hitler, in which he compares Germany under Hitler's National Socialism, with America. The musings are dated August 1, 1942, and are quoted in the article cited below:
(p. 3) I grant you that our standard of life is lower. But the German Reich has 270 opera houses - a standard of cultural existence of which they over there have no conception. They have clothes, food, cars and a badly constructed house - but with a refrigerator! This sort of thing does not impress us.
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