Sebastian Koch Quotes

I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.

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

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.

Those years when Poland was occupied by the Nazis was one of the darkest time in Poland's history.

I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

I was not a member of the SS.

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.

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

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

I was truly under Hitler's spell, that cannot be denied. I was impressed with him from the moment I first met him, in 1932. He had terrific power, especially in his eyes.

Everything German that stands for disorder and destruction is gathered together in the Bavarian capital. All that is reactionary is concentrated there.

Generally speaking, Israeli intelligence did not hunt Nazi war criminals.

One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring of police and soldiers. A truck was parked in front of the fish mart; into the back were climbing men, women, and children, all wearing the yellow star. . . . "Father! Those poor people!" I cried. . . . "Those poor people," Father echoed. But to my surprise I saw that he was looking at the solders now forming into ranks to march away. "I pity the poor Germans, Corrie. They have touched the apple of God's eye.

One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

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

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

'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.

Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.