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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Walther Funk was a German economist and Nazi official who served as Reich Minister for Economic Affairs (1938-1945) and president of Reichsbank (1939-1945). During his incumbency, he oversaw the mobilization of German economy for rearmament and arrangement of forced labor in concentration camps. After the war he was tried and convicted as a major war criminal by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Sentenced to life in prison, he remained incarcerated until he was released on health grounds in 1957. He died three years later.

August 18, 1890 - May 31, 1960

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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

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

Walther Funk

I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.

Walther Funk

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

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