Heinrich Himmler nejznámější citáty
rekonstrukce podle svědectví von dem Bacha před Norimberským tribunálem
Zdroj: Józef Wroniszewski: Ochota 1944. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1970, str. 128–129.
Heinrich Himmler: Citáty anglicky
Our concern, our duty, is our people and our blood. We can be indifferent to everything else. I wish the S.S. to adopt this attitude towards the problem of all foreign, non-Germanic peoples, especially Russians....
The Posen speech to SS officers (6 October 1943)
1940s
Himmler formulated this as the watchword of the Schultzstaffel, an organization that eventually became an enormous organization ranging from the staff of the concentration camps to the Gestapo and SD, to the Waffen-SS, Hitler's personal soldiers. Above all else, Himmler and the rest of the Nazi leadership stressed the importance of loyalty to the Reich and the Fuehrer. As translated in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), by Hannah Arendt Ch. 10
Undated
“I hope to see the very concept of Jewry completely obliterated.”
March 23 1941. Quoted in "Murderous Science" - Page 48 - by Benno Müller-Hill - History - 1998
1940s
From his treatise The Security Squadron as an Anti-Bolshevik Battle Organisation, 1936
1930s
November 25, 1939. Quoted in "Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy" - Page 160 - by Ismail K Merchant, Richard L. Rubenstein, John K. Roth - History - 2003
1930s
Addressing Rudolph Höss, perhaps in July 1942, during a visit to Birkenau POW camp (Kriegsgefangenenlager), where the inmates' and guards' deficient living conditions were pointed out, from Höss's autobiography http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2006/04/correction-corner-2-himmlers-visit-to.html written in a Polish prison, Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, pp. 286ff. (1996)
1940s
To Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Quoted in "Hitler and the Final Solution" - Page 137 - by Gerald Fleming - History - 1987
Undated
April 20, 1945 in a meeting with Norbert Masur, a representative of the World Jewish Congress.
This quotation has not been confirmed to come from Himmler, its attribution to him on the Internet coming from some point before 2000, as in the Site of the Sentient quotelist http://web.archive.org/web/20000823073240/http://www.siteofthesentient.com/alltags.html
Disputed
14 May 1928
1920s
Quoted in "Conscience and Memory: Meditations in a Museum of the Holocaust" - Page 29 - by Harold Kaplan - History - 1994
1940s
In one of his letters to Gestapo chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner, July 21, 1944 cited in Awake! magazine, 1993, 4/22, article: What Hope for an End to War?
1940s
“…the curse of the great to have to walk over corpses.”
Part 2 of 'The Face Of The Third Reich' by Joachim Fest (1999)
Undated
Varianta: …the curse of the great to have to walk over corpses.
The SS as an Anti-bolshevist Fighting Organization (1936)
1930s
Speech in Potsdam (13 October 1926), quoted in Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 92-93.
1920s
The secret memorandum Reflections on the Treatment of Peoples of Alien Races in the East (25 May 1940)
1940s
Heinrich Himmler speaking in Stettin to soldiers of the SS (13 July 1941)
1940s
The Posen speech to SS officers (4 October 1943), original translation from "International Military Trials - Nurnberg Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV", US Govt Printing Offc 1946 pp. 563-4.
Quoted in "Visions of Reality - A Study of Abnormal Perception and Behavior" - by Alberto Rivas - Psychology - 2007 - Page 162
Undated
Last words. Quoted in "Himmler, the Evil Genius of the Third Reich" - Page 257 - by Willi Frischauer - Germany - 1953
1940s
Varianta: Ich bin Heinrich Himmler.
The Posen speech to SS officers (6 October 1943)
1940s
Diary entry (November 1921), quoted in The Hidden Files (1992) by Derek Raymond
1920s
Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994).
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