Franz von Papen Quotes

Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen, Erbsälzer zu Werl und Neuwerk generally known as Franz von Papen, was a German nobleman, General Staff officer and politician. He served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933–34. He belonged to the group of close advisers to President Paul von Hindenburg in the late Weimar Republic. It was largely Papen, believing that Hitler could be controlled once he was in the government, who persuaded Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor in a cabinet not under Nazi Party domination. However, Papen and his allies were quickly marginalized by Hitler and he left the government after the Night of the Long Knives, during which the Nazis killed some of his confidantes.

✵ 29. October 1879 – 2. May 1969
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Famous Franz von Papen Quotes

“The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.”

Quoted in "Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Vol. 2" - Page 919 - 1946.
1940s

“Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.”

Quoted in "Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Vol. 2" - Page 919 - 1946.
1940s

“It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.”

Quoted in "Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Vol. 2" - Page 918 - 1946.
1940s

Franz von Papen Quotes

“Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.”

Letter sent to Adolf Hitler praising his firm action against the Sturm Abteilung on the Night of the Long Knives (12 July 1934). Quoted in "Nazi conspiracy and aggression" - Page 940 - 1946.
1940s

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