quotes about Himmler

last updated: November 28, 2023

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.
-- Fritz Sauckel

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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I can only be responsible for my orders. I cannot be responsible for all the acts of Himmler.
-- Oswald Pohl

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced.
-- Walter Schellenberg

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.

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“I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.”
“One thing I've experienced and I feel really grateful for now that I'm on my way out is that I felt that the justices gave that back to me. I really did. You know, of course, you can have some sharp exchanges. That's the nature of the thing, and that's fine. But really in the main I felt like the tone from them was, "Yeah. We may not agree with you, but we're going to have a discussion about this." And it did.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.”
“My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.”
“Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.”

Source : Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.334, Simon and Schuster
“'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.”
“I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.”

Source : Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu
“I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.”
“Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away.”
“We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To make or do. In the strict sense, of course, We invent nothing, merely bearing witness To what each morning brings again to light”

Source : Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt