Henning von Tresckow: Quotes about people

Henning von Tresckow was German general. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“I would like to show the German people a film with the title "Germany at the end of the war". Then perhaps people would be alarmed and would realize where we are heading. People would agree with me that the superior warlord (Hitler) must disappear. But since we cannot show this movie people will create the legend of the "stab in the back" whenever we will act against Hitler.”

Henning von Tresckow

December 1941. Bodo Scheurig, Henning von Tresckow, <i>ein Preusse gegen Hitler</i>, p. 135-6.

“I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.”

Henning von Tresckow

April 1943. Bodo Scheurig, Henning Von Tresckow: Ein Preuße Gegen Hitler.

“Remember this moment. If we don't convince the field marshal (Fedor von Bock) to fly to Hitler at once and have these orders (Commissar Order) canceled, the German people will be burdened with a guilt the world will not forget in a hundred years. This guilt will fall not only on Hitler, Himmler, Göring, and their comrades but on you and me, your wife and mine, your children and mine, that woman crossing the street, and those children over there playing ball.”

Henning von Tresckow

1941. Fest, Joachim. Plotting Hitler's Death, 175
Robert Kane, Disobedience and Conspiracy in the German Army, 1918-1945, p. 163.

“It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?”

Henning von Tresckow

June 1944. Marcel Stein, Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait, p. 247.