Robert Ley Quotes

1890–1945 Germany

Robert Ley (February 15 1890 – October 25 1945) was a German politician during the Nazi era; Ley headed the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945. He also held many other high positions in the Party, including Gauleiter, Reichsleiter and Reichsorganisationsleiter.

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Also known as: Ley, Robert

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When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.

The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want.'

The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider.

The fight against the Jews has not ended... it will not have ended until the Jews throughout the world have been exterminated.

We National Socialists have monopolized all resources and all our energies during the past seven years so as to be able to be equipped for the supreme effort of battle.

I admire the new Turkey and its great leader Atatürk.

Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a c-c-c-... I can't even get the word [criminal] out!

To G.M. Gilbert. Quoted in Gitta Sereny Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (1996)

Workers of all lands, unite — to smash the rule of English capitalism! You young upward-striving nations of the earth, combine to annihilate the old English dragon who blocks the treasures of the earth and withholds from you the riches of the world.

Peter Viereck Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler (2004)

We swear we are not going to abandon the struggle until the Last Jew in Europe has been exterminated and is actually dead. It is not enough to isolate the Jewish enemy of mankind - the Jew has got to be exterminated!

May 1943. Quoted in David Cesarani The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation (1994)

We believe on this earth in Adolf Hitler alone! We believe in National Socialism as the creed which is the sole source of grace! We believe that Almighty God has sent us Adolf Hitler so that he may rid Germany of the hypocrites and Pharisees.

You know we have this new poison gas - I've heard about it. The Fuehrer must do it. He must use it. Now he has to do it!

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Ley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.