Ernst Kaltenbrunner Quotes
1903–1946 Austria
Also known as: Kaltenbrunner, Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, Kalenbrunner, Kaltenbruner
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The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow.
There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.
Oppression is the essence of power.
I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.
Don't even step out of your garden gate until this matter has been clarified.
My whole life long, I was ceaselessly in need of love and support, though I let this show as little as possible.
Ich bekenne mich nicht schuldig. (I do not believe that I have made myself guilty.)
I was appointed by Hitler to succeed Canaris because it was well known and proven that my abilities were greater than those of Canaris.
I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart. I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry this time my people were led by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge. Germany, good luck.
It is precisely the immediate and thorough eradication of the Jews in Italy which is the special interest of the present internal political situation and the general security in Italy.
Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.
I am thought of as another Himmler. I'm not. The papers make me out as a criminal. I never killed anyone.
The colonel in charge of the London prison that I was in has told me that I would be hanged in any case, no matter what the outcome would be. Since I am fully aware of that, all I want to do is to clear up on the fundamental things that are wrong here.
(While playing solitaire and sipping cognac) It's all a lot of crap. The game is up.
(While smiling, and jokingly) You haven't come to see me for three weeks. I wondered whether you had become disgusted with us war criminals - particularly me, the so-called archcriminal of them all.
Please report to RF SS and to the Fuehrer that all arrangements against Jews, political and concentration camp internees in the Protectorate have been taken care of by me personally today.
All offices of the SD and the security police are to be informed that pogroms of the populace against English and American terror-fliers were not to be interfered with; on the contrary, this hostile mood is to be fostered.