Claus von Stauffenberg Quotes

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred, this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Had he been victorious, Hitler himself could hardly have demanded more.

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

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

There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

… bootlickers of Hitler

I did not more than my patriotic duty in trying to oppose the criminal madness of Hitler.

Hitler—this bloodthirsty guttersnipe.

If Hitler were to succeed, it would be the end for many besides ourselves of all those things which, as we say, “make life worth living.” We realize that the struggle may cost us everything, but just because the things we are defending are worth any sacrifice, it is a noble privilege to be the defenders of things so precious.

In comparison to Hitler we are all pip-squeaks. Anyone who believes he can do better than the Führer is stupid.

We, in America and Great Britain, have never had to live with evil and ignore it, or pretend it wasn't happening, as people did all over Europe, and indeed, even in Germany herself.

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

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

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

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

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Hitler has become Chancellor… It’s like a fairy tale come true.

Lord, if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided.

Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not that bad times await them, not that the war may end in defeat, but that what is happening is sin and that they are personally responsible for each terrible deed that has been committed - naturally, not in the earthly sense, but as Christians.