Heinrich Himmler

“Most of you know what it means when 100 corpses are lying side by side, or 500 or 1,000. To have stuck it out and at the same time to have remained decent men, that is what has made us hard.”

“Whether other nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture.”

“Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology. It is a matter of cleanliness.”

“My honor is my loyalty.”

“We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.”

“We had the moral right, we had the duty to our people to kill this people that wanted to kill us.”

“One basic principle must be the absolute rule for the SS man: we must be honest, decent, loyal, and comradely to members of our own blood and to nobody else.”

“It is the curse of greatness that it must step over dead bodies to create new life.”

“I know there are many people in Germany who feel sick at the very sight of this black uniform. We understand that and don't expect to be loved by all that many.”

“In the course of history, there has never been a period of culture which was not fundamentally based on the subjugation of man by man.”