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Baldur von Schirach Quotes

He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.

He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.

Baldur von Schirach
Germany, Serving God

They say of us that we are an anti-Christian movement. They even say that I am an outspoken paganist.... I solemnly declare here, before the German public, that I stand on the basis of Christianity, but I declare just as solemnly that I will put down every attempt to introduce confessional matters into our Hitler Youth.

Baldur von Schirach
Christian, Movement, Matter
"The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945". Book by Richard Steigmann-Gall, 2003.

The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

Baldur von Schirach
Body, Strive
"German Bodies: Race and Representation After Hitler". Book by Uli Linke, p. 47, 1999.

In the presence of this blood banner which represents our Führer, I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the saviour of our country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him, so help me God.

Baldur von Schirach
Country, Giving Up, Blood

Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.

Baldur von Schirach
People, Danger, Mankind
"The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, p. 245 (To Leon Goldensohn, June 16, 1946), 2004.

If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.

Baldur von Schirach
Hate, Fall, Warrior

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

Baldur von Schirach
Symphony, Youth, Faust
"The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership". Book by Joachim C. Fest , p. 221, 1999.

If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.

Baldur von Schirach
Men, People, Robins
"The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Random House, p. 237 (To Leon Goldensohn, March 10, 1946), 2010.

I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.

Baldur von Schirach
Men, Views, Ideas
"The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.

Baldur von Schirach
Heart, Fate, Hands
"The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership". Book by Joachim C. Fest, p. 220, 1999.

I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

Baldur von Schirach
Spiritual, Conceited, Profound
"The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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