Top 4 Quotes by Walther Funk

I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.

I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.

Walther Funk

Taken, Fate, Dark

"The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Random House, p. 85 (To Leon Goldensohn, April 14, 1946), 2010.

Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.

Walther Funk

Russia, Funk

Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, 2004, May 11, 1946.

But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.

Walther Funk

Ignorance, Law, Firsts

"The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 82, 2010.