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Walther Funk Quotes

1890–1960 Germany

Walther Emanuel Funk (August 18, 1890 – May 31, 1960) was a prominent Nazi official. He served as Minister for Economic Affairs in Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1945.

Germany
Economists

Also known as: Funk, Walther

Random Walther Funk quote

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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.

At that time I believed in the Führer principle because to me it meant that the best one should be the leader. If the leader is good and responsible, then the government is good.

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.

Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.

Ach! I know. If I were to play the Pathetique or the Moonlight Sonata for the high judges, they would let me off. But my defense unfortunately will not be musical.

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.

Attribution

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