Friedrich Kellner

"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."

"No one has the right to steal our dreams and trespass upon our liberties."

"Even in days of loss and sorrow, beauty remains, and I am ever grateful."

"Thank God for youth; there will always be love."

"Better days and better people make bad days and bad people bearable."

"Nothing more confounds your enemies than when you suddenly and silently recall a better moment and smile."

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

"Terror is trump. Methods of common brutal suppression are considered sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are saints, and from the district leader upwards there are only Gods!"

"If the Jews, who over the centuries contributed demonstrable achievements in the economy for the total development of the nation, can be made a people without rights, then that is an act unworthy of a cultured nation. The curse of this evil deed will indelibly rest on the entire German people. The authors, the National Socialists, will have disappeared some day; their deeds, however, will live on"

"This "Conqueror of Berlin," as he [Joseph Goebbels] has named himself, has completely conquered Germany. And not only that: many Germans living abroad--all too many of them, unfortunately--have fallen for the cunning propaganda."

"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."

"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 politics of aggression. Possibilities existed, but no actions were taken."

"Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant. The sharpest means would still be too mild."

"Hitler knew weapons alone would not be decisive, he focused on molding the people’s spirit, breeding something singular in history: bravado, blind obedience, ruthlessness, and brutality. There was contempt for every noble human emotion; contemptible disregard for the thinking of others; destruction of religion and religious establishments -- and there was the extermination of the Jews because they were wiser than the German people."

"The world will rightfully be outraged over so much inhumanity, and it will ignite a hatred that can never be extinguished. . . . How long will this reign of terror continue?"

"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."

"Under the category, "Air Force aided by Hitler youth," the children wear military uniforms and become used to handling the artillery. Fifteen- and sixteen-year-old children as warriors! If the war still continues to last for a long time, perhaps infants also will be used. Total war!"

"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."

"We can hold up under everything if only we have the certainty the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed."

"Adolph Hitler, "the most ingenious field marshal of all time," the all-powerful ruler over the 1,000 Year Reich-- which collapsed after twelve years --- has disappeared from the scene. The NSDAP has come to a complete and inglorious end."

"If now, after the collapse, any of these lackeys of Adolf Hitler has the insolence to want to be considered as a harmless onlooker, then one can only wish he immediately feels the scourge of avenging mankind. . . . Whoever cries about having lost the totalitarian system or wants to resurrect National Socialism is to be treated as an incorrigible lunatic."

"Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book!"

"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."

"Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil."

"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."

"Wir wollen alles ertragen, wenn wir nur die Gewißheit haben, daß das Ungeheuer Hitler mit seiner unersättlichen Blut- und Plünderungsgier bald seine letzten Schandtaten begangen haben wird."

"Warum nur Haß? Wo bleibt die Liebe? Oder wenigstens ein bißchen Anständigkeit anderen Völkern gegenüber. Genau wie wir uns den Juden gegenüber benommen haben, genau so wollen wir alle anderen Völker, die uns irgendwie im Wege sind, zerschlagen, zertrampeln – ja sogar ausrotten."

""Es gibt keine Strafe, die hart genug wäre, bei diesen Nazi-Bestien angewendet zu werden. Natürlich müssen bei der Vergeltung auch wieder die Unschuldigen mitleiden. 99% der deutschen Bevölkerung tragen mittelbar oder unmittelbar die Schuld an den heutigen Zuständen. Deshalb kann es nur heißen: ‘Mitgegangen"

"Die Demokratie mit den Füßen zu treten und einem einzigen Menschen die Gewalt über nahezu 80 Millionen Menschen zu geben, ist so furchtbar, daß man ob der Dinge, die da kommen werden, sehr wohl zittern kann."

"Der Sieg der Amerikaner, Engländer und Russen war erforderlich, den nationalsozialistischen Irrwahn und die Welteroberungspläne zu zerstören."