Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Rudolf Hess

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess held that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace. He was still serving his life sentence at the time of his suicide in 1987.

April 26, 1894 - August 17, 1987
History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.
Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees. — © Rudolf Hess
We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees.
Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times.
My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.
Hitler is simply pure reason incarnate
How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.
Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was five million Jews. There are certain methods by which any confession can be obtained, whether it is true or not.
Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.
The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.
I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad. As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour. Germany does not want war of any kind. Germany wants real and abiding peace.
National Socialism would have every German decide for himself on spiritual questions, just as in the days of Frederick the Great. The National Socialist state gives to the church what belongs to the church, and to the state what belongs to the state.
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