Friedrich Kellner: Power

Friedrich Kellner was German Justice inspector. Explore interesting quotes on power.
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“Now the following questions must be raised: Have we become happier since occupying these other countries? Has the individual German gained anything from such conquests? Will we not get into trouble with another powerful nation at some point--if not tomorrow, then the day after? Making ourselves bigger will not diminish potential conflicts of interest.”

Friedrich Kellner

October 7, 1940; Vol. 1, p. 92.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in the future.”

Friedrich Kellner

“Ich entschloss mich, die Nazis in der Zukunft zu bekämpfen,” Giessener Anzeiger, Giessen, Germany, April 6, 2005.
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“The carnage will eventually come to an end, but the Western powers will carry the historical guilt for not promptly providing the most intensive preventative measures against Germany's incessant attack-politics. Possibilities existed, but no actions were taken.”

Friedrich Kellner

May 29, 1940; Vol. 1, p. 73.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“To trample democracy with one’s feet and give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can really tremble over the things that will come.”

Friedrich Kellner

September 17, 1939; Vol. 1, p. 26.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“When dictators enslave their own people and seek to impose their anti-democratic ideology upon others, when evil seeks power, men and women of good will must set aside their own differences of opinion and stand together and fight – including those who hate war.”

Friedrich Kellner

“German’s war diary goes public,” Washington Times, UPI News, March 25, 2005.
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