Walther Funk quotes
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“I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.”
-- Walther FunkSource : "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Random House, p. 85 (To Leon Goldensohn, April 14, 1946), 2010.
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“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.”
-- Walther FunkSource : "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 82, 2010.
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“I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.”
-- Walther FunkSource : Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, - 2004 - Page 83, April 7, 1946.
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“Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.”
-- Walther FunkSource : Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, 2004, May 11, 1946.
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“Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.”
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Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.303, Penguin
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Source : Abraham Cowley, “A Vote (Excerpt)”
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