Walther Funk Quotes:
Life: August 18, 1890 - May 31, 1960
Birthday: August 18
Death: May 31
But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.
source: "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 82, 2010.
topic: Ignorance, Law, Firsts, Funk, Ignorance Of The Law
