Adolf Eichmann Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.”
-- Adolf EichmannSource : "And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight". Book by Jacob Robinson, p.37, 1965.
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“Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.”
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“My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.”
-- Adolf EichmannSource : "Hitler's Beneficiaries. How the Nazis Bought the German People". Book by Götz Aly, pp. 16-17, 2007.
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“Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. ... His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.”
-- Adolf EichmannSource : "The Eichmann Memoir" by James Noxon, The Personalist, Cover image Volume 42, Issue 3, onlinelibrary.wiley.com. July 1961.
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“I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.”
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“I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.”
-- Adolf EichmannSource : "Adolf Eichmann, the Evil Architect of the Holocaust in WW2" by Nikola Budanovic, www.warhistoryonline.com. August 22, 2016.
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“From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.”
-- Adolf EichmannSource : "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.
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“I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.”
-- Adolf EichmannSource : "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.
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“Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.”
-- Adolf EichmannSource : "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.
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“I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.”
-- Adolf EichmannSource : "'I Was Never an Anti-Semite'". articles.latimes.com. March 01, 2000.
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“To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.”
-- Adolf EichmannSource : Life magazine, December 05, 1960.
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