Friedrich Kellner: Quotes about people

Friedrich Kellner was German Justice inspector. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“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.
Attributed

“Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? We think we can behave against everyone in the exact same rabid way we did against the Jews: to smash, crush--and even exterminate.”

Friedrich Kellner

March 30, 1940; Vol. 1, p. 62.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“There is no punishment that would be hard enough to be applied to these Nazi beasts. Of course, in the case of retribution the innocent will have to suffer along with them. Ninety-nine percent of the German people, directly or indirectly, carry the guilt for the present situation. Therefore we can only say this: Those who travel together, hang together.”

Friedrich Kellner

October 28, 1941; Vol. 1, p. 192.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the German people were not able on their own initiative to shake off the yoke of the National Socialists. The victory of the Americans, English, and Russians was a necessary occurrence to destroy the National Socialists' delusions and plans for world domination.”

Friedrich Kellner

May 1, 1945; Vol. 2, p. 930.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“My main goal after the war was to help rebuild the Social Democratic Party that Hitler had banned, and use it to reunite the people of Germany who had forgotten how a democracy worked – through tolerance, compromise and a dedication to individual freedom.”

Friedrich Kellner

“Search led to family, diary and a cause,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas), April 22, 2007.
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“The Party uses the lies up to the last moment as a cover-up. Thus it intimidates the political opponents and provides its Party comrades with sedatives. It is so unbelievably simple for the current gang to lie to this German people and to lead these fools around by the nose.”

Friedrich Kellner

March 26, 1945; Vol. 2, p. 920.
Diary (1939 - 1945)