Wilhelm Frick

"It was sad. It's war. Many others died, too. It's war."

"Long live eternal Germany!"

"Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years."

"In the testimony of each defendant, at some point there was reached the familiar blank wall: Nobody knew anything about what was going on. Time after time we have heard the chorus from the dock: "I only heard about these things here for the first time." These men saw no evil, spoke none, and none was uttered in their presence. This claim might sound very plausible if made by one defendant. But when we put all their stories together, the impression which emerges of the Third Reich, which was to last a thousand years, is ludicrous. … A minister of interior who knew not even what went on in the interior of his own office, much less the interior of his own department, and nothing at all about the interior of Germany. … Frick, the ruthless organizer, helped the party to seize power, supervised the police agencies to insure that it stayed in power, and chained the economy of Bohemia and Moravia to the German war machine."

"I am skeptical about preventing wars. I doubt if they can be prevented. There will always be wars. Judging by past experiences, working for peace now would be as ineffective as ever. It's a law of nature."

"Personally, he is not particularly depressed, because of the "nature of life, the laws of nature, the ways of war.""

"Der Anklage gegenüber habe ich ein reines Gewissen. Mein ganzes Leben war Dienst an Volk und Vaterland. Ihnen habe ich meine beste Kraft in treuester Pflichterfüllung gewidmet. Ich bin überzeugt, dass kein patriotischer Amerikaner oder Angehöriger eines anderen Landes in gleicher Lage seines Landes an meiner Stelle anders gehandelt hätte. Denn jede andere Handlungsweise wäre Bruch meines Treueides, Hoch- und Landesverrat gewesen"