Sebastian Kurz Quotes

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

For the first time in the history of relations between people, a precedent has been created by which a great State [Germany], as a result of moral pressure alone, takes it upon itself to pay compensation to the victims [the Jews] of the government that preceded it [Nazi Germany].

I found myself right in the middle of an absolute hotbed of Nazi intrigue. All the Jewish shops had 'Jude' daubed over the windows, and the Jews themselves were attacked.

I have always had a longing to talk about this Nazi period because my parents' generation wouldn't talk about it after the war at all. From an actor's point of view, it's amazing to play in one year the Nazi Albert Speer and Claus von Stauffenberg.

My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

The reason that 75% of the Jews in France survived is that the French people helped us.

The philosophies of Ford and Hitler were very similar. Ford was very well informed about everything going on in Germany.... He knew all about the National Socialist movement.... Ford told me that he helped to finance Hitler with money from the sales of automobiles and trucks that he had sent to Germany.

I was thrilled to see the movies [WW II newsreels] of marching Germans … we all knew that Hitler hated communists …

We [Nazis] think with our blood.

I was allowed for many years of my life to work for the greatest son [Adolf Hitler] that my people produced in their 1,000 year history. I regret nothing.