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Heinrich Himmler Quotes

Total quotes: 23
“In the brief monthly reports of the Security Police, I only want figures on how many Jews have been shipped off and how many are currently left.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Nazis, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Jews, S.S.
“We have taken from them what wealth they had. I have issued a strict order, which SS-Obergruppenführer Pohl has carried out, that this wealth should, as a matter of course, be handed over to the Reich without reserve.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Nazis, Nazi Germany, S.S., Third Reich
“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Terror, Political Weapon, Cruelty, Respect, Hate, Love, Fear
“I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Envy
“One rejects as un-German and impossible the Bolshevist method of physical extermination of a people.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Bolshevism, Communism, Holocaust, Extermination
“We shall take care that never again in Germany, the heart of Europe, will the Jewish-Bolshevistic revolution of subhumans be able to be kindled either from within or through emissaries from without.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Nazis, S.S., Bolshevism, Anti-Semitism, Communism
“We shall never be rough or heartless where it is not necessary; that is clear. We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude to animals, will also adopt a decent attitude to these human animals.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Heartless, Germans, Subhumans, racism, Human Animals
“My honor is my loyalty.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Honor, Loyalty
“I hope to see the very concept of Jewry completely obliterated.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Jewry, Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Genocide, Anti-Semitism
“I shall speak to you here with all frankness of a very serious subject. We shall now discuss it absolutely openly among ourselves, nevertheless we shall never speak of it in public. I mean the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish race.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Nazis, Nazi Germany, Jews, Holocaust
“In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system....The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfillment.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Capitalism, Socialism, National Socialism, Red Front, Jews, Marxism, Anti-Semitism, Nazis
“Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology, it is a matter of cleanliness. In just this same way anti-Semitism for us has not been a question of ideology but a matter of cleanliness.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Anti-Semitism, Delousing, Racial Hygiene, Nazi Germany, Holocaust
“I know there are some people in Germany who become sick when they see these black uniforms, we understand the reason for this, and do not expect we shall be loved by all that number of people; those who come to fear us in any way or at any time must have a bad conscience towards the Fuhrer and the nation. For these persons we have established an organization called the Security Service.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Bolsheviks, Gestapo, Nazis, Germany, Nazi Germany, Blackshirts, S.S.
“I won't watch it happen—that even one bit of putrefaction comes in contact with us, or takes root in us. On the contrary, where it might try to take root, we will burn it out together. Altogether, however, we can say, that we have fulfilled this most difficult duty for the love of our people. And our spirit, our soul, our character has not suffered injury from it."”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Spirit, Soul, Nationalism, Nazi Germany, S.S., Degeneracy
“I also want to talk to you, quite frankly, on a very grave matter. Among ourselves it should be mentioned quite frankly, and yet we will never speak of it publicly. Just as we did not hesitate on June 30th, 1934 to do the duty we were bidden, and stand comrades who had lapsed, up against the wall and shoot them, so we have never spoken about it and will never speak of it. It was that tact which is a matter of course and which I am glad to say, is inherent in us, that made us never discuss it among ourselves, never to speak of it. It appalled everyone, and yet everyone was certain that he would do it the next time if such orders are issued and if it is necessary. I mean the evacuation out of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish race. It's one of those things it is easy to talk about—'The Jewish race is being exterminated,’ says one party member, ‘that's quite clear, it's in our program—elimination of the Jews, and we're doing it, exterminating them.’ And then they come, 80 million worthy Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are vermin, but this one is an A-1 Jew. Not one of all those who talk this way has witnessed it, not one of them has been through it. Most of you must know what it means when 100 corpses are lying side by side, or 500 or 1000. To have stuck it out and at the same time—apart from exceptions caused by human weakness—to have remained decent fellows, that is what has made us hard. This is a page of glory in our history which has never been written and is never to be written, for we know how difficult we should have made it for ourselves, if—with the bombing raids, the burdens and the deprivations of war—we still had Jews today in every town as secret saboteurs, agitators, and trouble-mongers. We would now probably have reached the 1916/17 stage when the Jews were still in the German national body.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Jews, Nazis, S.S., Holocaust
“One principle must be absolute for the SS man: we must be honest, decent, loyal and friendly to members of our blood and to no one else. What happens to the Russians, what happens to the Czechs, is a matter of utter indifference to me. Such good blood of our own kind as there may be among the nations we shall acquire for ourselves, if necessary by taking away the children and bringing them up among us.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: S.S., Nazi Germany, russians, Czechs, Chauvinism, racism
“The Slav is never able to build anything himself. In the long run, he's not capable of it. I'll come back to this later. With the exception of a few phenomena produced by Asia every couple of centuries, through that mixture of two heredities which may be fortunate for Asia but is unfortunate for us Europeans¬—with the exception, therefore, of an Attila, a Genghis Khan, a Tamerlane, a Lenin, a Stalin—the mixed race of the Slavs is based on a sub-race with a few drops of blood of our blood, blood of a leading race; the Slav is unable to control himself and create order. He is able to argue, able to debate, able to disintegrate, able to offer resistance against every authority and to revolt. But these human shoddy goods are just as incapable of maintaining order today as they were 700 or 800 years ago, when they called in the Varangians, when they called in the Ruriks.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Slavs, racism, Chauvinism, Vladimir Lenin, Tamerlane, Genghis Khan, Joseph Stalin, Varangians, ruriks
“We won't waste much time on the Jews. It's great to get to grips with the Jewish race at last. The more that die the better; hitting them represents a victory for our Reich. The Jews should feel that we've arrived. We want to put half to three-quarters of all Jews east of the Vistula. We will crush these Jews wherever we can. Everything is at stake. Get the Jews out of the Reich, Vienna, everywhere. We have no use for Jews in the Reich. Probably the line of the Vistula, behind this line no more. We are the most important people here.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Jews, Anti-Semitism, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Deportation, Vienna, Third Reich
“Some information and observations of recent date have led me to draw up plans that I would like to bring to your attention. This concerns Jehovah’s Witnesses....How are we going to govern and pacify Russia when...we will have conquered vast areas of its territory?...All forms of religion and the pacifist sects must be supported...among all the others the beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is well-known that the latter have characteristics incredibly positive for us: Apart from the fact that they refuse military service and anything to do with war...they are incredibly reliable, do not drink, do not smoke; they are relentless workers and of rare honesty. For them the spoken word stands. These are ideal characteristics...enviable qualities.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Jehovah's Witnesses, Russia, World War II, Nazi Germany
“It is a war of ideologies and struggle between races. On one side stands National Socialism: ideology, founded on the values of our Germanic, Nordic blood. It is worth the world as we want to see: beautiful, orderly, fair, socially, a world that may be, still suffers some flaws, but overall a happy, beautiful world filled with culture, which is precisely Germany. On the other side stands the 180 millionth people, a mixture of races and peoples, whose names are unpronounceable, and whose physical nature is such that the only thing that they can do—is to shoot without pity or mercy. These animals, which are subjected to torture and ill-treatment of each prisoner from our side, which do not have medical care they captured our wounded, as do the decent men, you will see them for yourself. These people have joined a Jewish religion, one ideology, called Bolshevism, with the task of: having now Russian, half [located] in Asia, parts of Europe, crush Germany and the world. When you, my friends, are fighting in the East, you keep that same fight against the same subhumans, against the same inferior races that once appeared under the name of Huns, and later—1,000 years ago during the time of King Henry and Otto I—the name of the Hungarians, and later under the name of Tatars, and then they came again under the name of Genghis Khan and the Mongols. Today they are called Russian under the political banner of Bolshevism.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Nazis, Nazi Germany, National Socialism, Russia, Bolshevism, Communism, Tatars, Otto I, Genghis Khan, Mongols, King Henry, Anti=Semitism
“It is absolutely wrong to project our own harmless soul with its deep feelings, our kindheartedness, our idealism, upon alien peoples. This is true, beginning with Herder, who must have been drunk when he wrote the Voices Of The Peoples, thereby bringing such immeasurable suffering and misery upon us who came after him. This is true, beginning with the Czechs and Slovenes, to whom we brought their sense of nationhood. They themselves were incapable of it, but we invented it for them.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Nazi Germany, Voices of the Peoples, Czechs, Nationhood, Kindheartedness, Idealism
“Some SS men have disobeyed this order. There are not very many¬—and they will be dead men—without mercy!!! [Himmler shouts] We have the moral right, we had the duty to our people to do it—to kill this people who wanted to kill us. But we do not have the right to enrich ourselves with even one fur, with one Mark, with one cigarette, with one watch, with anything. That we do not have. Because at the end of this, we don't want—because we exterminated the bacillus—to become sick and die from the same bacillus.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: S.S., Nazi Germany, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust
“I must really say that he is a veteran Communist, this Herr Josip Broz, a consistent man. Unfortunately he is our enemy. He really has earned his title of Marshal. When we catch him we shall do him in at once; you can be sure of that; he is our enemy. But I wish we had a dozen Titos in Germany...The man had nothing at all. He was between the Russians, the British, and Americans for a ride and to shit on them in the most comical way. He is a Moscow man…He has never capitulated.”
— Heinrich Himmler
Tagged: Josip Tito, Germany, Russia, Great Britain, Moscow, Communist, Constency, Loyalty
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