Franz von Papen Quotes

• The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

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  Divine Order   Anchors   Essence  

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• But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.

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  People   Stressed   Cinema  

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 30, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

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  Party   Government   Majority  

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• Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

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  Fate   Names   Germany  

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 2, p. 919, 1946.

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• The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.

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  Heart   Government   Fulfilled  

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 2, p. 919, 1946.

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• Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.

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  Crush   Thinking   Revolution  

  Letter sent to Adolf Hitler on July 12, 1934. "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, 1946.

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• Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

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  Leadership   Party   States  

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• The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

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  Spiritual   Political   Movement  

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• It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

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  Party   Afterlife   Leader  

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 2, p. 918, 1946.

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• We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

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  Party   Aggravation   Soul  

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 6, p. 3,

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