Interview mit Gustave Gilbert in der Gefängniszelle, 18. April 1946, Nürnberger Tagebuch (1962; Originalausgabe: "Nuremberg Diary" 1947), S. 270 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=RYYZAAAAIAAJ&q=%22keinen+krieg%22, S. 270 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=RYYZAAAAIAAJ&q=mitmachen, S.270 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=RYYZAAAAIAAJ&q=pazifisten. Aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen von Margarete Carroux, Karin Krauskopf und Lis Leonard http://books.google.de/books?id=RYYZAAAAIAAJ&q=%22dem+amerikanischen%22.
Englisch: Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.[…] That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. - :en:Hermann Göring#Nuremberg Diary (1947) p. 278 http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=Fc8OAQAAIAAJ&dq=piece– 279 books.google http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=Fc8OAQAAIAAJ&dq=pacifists
Hermann Göring Berühmte Zitate
„Wenn wir diesen Krieg verlieren, dann gnade uns der Himmel.“
am 3. September 1939 in Reaktion auf das britische Ultimatum zu Paul-Otto Schmidt laut dessen Zeugenaussage in: Der Prozeß gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Gerichtshof Nürnberg, 28. März 1946, Nachmittagssitzung, 1947, Band 10, S. 227 zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/2000276024X#227
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„Wer Jude ist, [] bestimme ich!“
Upton Sinclair: One Clear Call, The Viking Press, New York 1948, S. 498 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=7SIFAQAAIAAJ&q=jude
ursprünglich von Karl Lueger, siehe dort.
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„Wenigstens zwölf Jahre anständig gelebt!“
bei seiner Festnahme durch US-amerikanische Soldaten am 9. Mai 1945 auf Schloss Fischhorn, überliefert von Paul Deichmann, zitiert nach David Irving: Göring. Eine Biografie, Arndt, Kiel 1999, S. 19 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=hr8qAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22anständig%22
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„Ich habe kein Gewissen! Mein Gewissen heißt Adolf Hitler.“
Hermann Rauschning: Gespräche mit Hitler, Europa Verlag, Zürich 1940, S. 77. Rauschning will kurz nach dem Reichstagsbrand in der Wandelhalle vor den Amtsräumen Hitlers in der Reichskanzlei mitangehört haben, wie Göring Himmler, Frick und einigen Gauleitern schilderte, wie „seine Jungens“ in den Reichstag eingedrungen seien und diesen angezündet hätten. Diese Darstellung wird inzwischen überwiegend nicht mehr ernst genommen.
Göring selbst erklärte dazu in: Der Prozeß gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Gerichtshof Nürnberg, 18. März 1946, Nachmittagssitzung, 1947, Band 9, S. 482 f. zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20002759985: "Herrn Rauschning habe ich in meinem Leben nur zweimal ganz flüchtig gesehen. Wenn ich schon den Reichstag angezündet hätte, so würde ich das voraussichtlich nur im allerengsten Vertrauenskreis, wenn überhaupt, bekanntgegeben haben. [483] Einem Mann, den ich überhaupt nicht kenne und von dem ich heute nicht sagen kann, wie er überhaupt ausgesehen hat, würde ich mich niemals gegenüber geäußert haben. Es ist dies eine absolute Fälschung."
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„Der Sieger wird immer der Richter und der Besiegte stets der Angeklagte sein.“
Nuremberg Diary (1947)
Hermann Göring Zitate und Sprüche
„Wenn auch nur ein feindliches Flugzeug unser Reichsgebiet überfliegt, will ich Meier heißen!“
in einer Rundfunkrede bei Kriegsanfang, zitiert u. a. in: Günter Oestermann: Junger Wolf im Nebel. Ein Junge in Deutschland 1930-1945. Books on Demand, 2001. ISBN 9783831124879. S. 157.
Ansprache als Preußischer Innenminister im Februar 1933. Video auf criticalpast.com http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675047286_Hermann-Goering_seated-at-his-desk_reads-his-program_lamp-on-a-table, bei Minute 00:23.
Der alte Fliegergeist lebt. Rede zum Abschluß des Deutschlandfluges am 24. Juni 1934. In: Erich Gritzbach (Hrsg.), Hermann Göring. Reden und Aufsätze, 2. Aufl., Franz Eher Nachf., München 1938, S. 121–124, hier S. 122 https://books.google.de/books?id=tafRAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Das+junge%22
Das Zitat wurde zu der Propagandaparole verkürzt: "Das deutsche Volk muß ein Volk von Fliegern werden." - Das deutsche Volk muß ein Volk von Fliegern werden. https://www.dhm.de/lemo/bestand/objekt/das-deutsche-volk-muss-ein-volk-von-fliegern-werden-1941.html In: Lebendiges Museum Online, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2020
Hjalmar Schacht: 76 Jahre meines Lebens, Kindler und Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1953, S. 463
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Über die Schlacht von Stalingrad, die Göring am Vortag der Erstürmung des deutschen Hauptquartiers durch die Rote Armee mit der Schlacht bei den Thermopylen vergleicht: denselben Nachruhm wie die dort gefallenen Spartaner erwarte auch die Gefallenen von Stalingrad. Die deshalb als "Leichenrede" bekannt gewordene Ansprache Görings vom 30. Januar 1943 „zum zehnten Jahrestag der Nationalen Erhebung“ wurde aus dem Ehrensaal des Berliner Luftfahrtministeriums vom Rundfunk übertragen und war auch in Stalingrad zu empfangen. Audio im Webangebot des Imperial War Museum https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80003108, Teil 3/3, bei Minute 02:44. Foto in Das Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus – Spiegel der deutschen Geschichte https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Downloads/Broschueren_Bestellservice/2016-05-13-geschichte-des-bmf.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=4#page=12, S. 11.
Helmut Schmidt notierte in seinen Taschenkalender: "Charaktervolle Rede Hermann Görings zum 30. Januar." - Hartmut Soell: Helmut Schmidt. Band 1. DVA 2003, S. 138 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=6RloAAAAMAAJ&q=charaktervolle
Joseph Goebbels' Tagebucheintrag siehe unten #Zitate mit Bezug auf Hermann Göring.
„Er hat stets ein Reich stark gemacht, Butter und Schmalz haben höchstens ein Volk fett gemacht.“
Über die Fettlücke, Rede am 7. Dezember 1935 in der Hanseatenhalle Hamburg, in: Europäische Revue, Band 12, Stuttgart/Berlin 1936, S. 138 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=99AcAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Erz+hat+stets+ein+Reich%22
Original: (en) Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. […] [V]oice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
Quelle: Interview in seiner Nürnberger Gefängniszelle mit dem Psychologen Gustave Mark Gilbert, 18. April 1946, in Gustave Mark Gilbert: Nürnberger Tagebuch, Aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen von Margaret Carroux, Karin Krauskopf und Lis Leonard, Fischer Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1962, S. 270 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=RYYZAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Natürlich,+das+einfache%22
Quelle: Gustave Mark Gilbert: Nuremberg Diary, Farrar, Straus and Company, New York 1947, p. 278 https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=Fc8OAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Naturally,+the+common%22– 279 books.google https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=Fc8OAQAAIAAJ&q=%22in+any+country%22
Presseunterredung am 9. August 1939 books.google https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=2W1bAAAAIAAJ&q=presseunterredung+august, in: Das Archiv, Nachschlagewerk für Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur, Nr. 65 (August 1939), Berlin 1939, S. 624 https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=2W1bAAAAIAAJ&q=%22persönlich+habe%22– 625 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=2W1bAAAAIAAJ&q=%22feindlicher+flieger%22
Siehe dazu auch Ulrich von Hassells Tagebucheintrag vom 16. März 1941 unten in #Zitate mit Bezug auf Hermann Göring
Brief an Reinhard Heydrich, Juli 1941, s:Göring an Heydrich über die Endlösung der Judenfrage
Quelle: Brief an den Alliierten Kontrollrat, 11. Oktober 1946 (vier Tage vor seinem Suizid), nach Günther Haase, Kunstraub und Kunstschutz, Band I: Eine Dokumentation, Norderstedt 2008, S. 378 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=CJJ8tb4IY6cC&pg=PA378&q=kontrollrat#v=onepage
Hermann Göring: Zitate auf Englisch
“Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.”
Radio broadcast (1936), as quoted in The New Language of Politics: An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans, and Political Usage (1968) by William L. Safire, p. 178
Variants:
Guns will make us strong, butter will only make us fat.
We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.
At lunch during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal (11 December 1945); Nuremberg Diary p. 66, 1947 edition.
Nuremberg Diary (1947)
This statement was attributed to Goering in at least one book on World War II, but it was removed from the English Wikipedia page on him on grounds that it was not actually verified that Goering had ever said it.
Disputed
Kontext: In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set – then at least I'll own something that has always worked.
To Leon Goldensohn, about attacking the Soviets (15 March 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
To Leon Goldensohn (21 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
To Leon Goldensohn (24 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946) http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp
Nuremberg Diary (1947)
Kontext: p> Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.</p
Addressing the Luftwaffe (September 1939) as quoted in August 1939: The Last Days of Peace (1979) by Nicholas Fleming, p. 171; "Meyer" (or "Meier") is a common name in Germany. This statement would come back to haunt him as Allied bombers devastated Germany; many ordinary Germans, especially in Berlin, took to calling him "Meier", and air raid sirens "Meier's Trumpets". It is said that he once himself introduced himself as "Meier" when taking refuge in an air-raid shelter in Berlin.
To Leon Goldensohn (24 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
“When I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!”
"When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver" was also is used in the 1981 Cannes Film Festival Award winner Mephisto spoken by a character known as "The General" in the English dubbed version.
Misattributed
Variante: "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver." Often attributed to Göring, who might have used such lines, these statements are derived from those in the play Schlageter by Hanns Johst: "Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!" [Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!] (Act 1, Scene 1) The play was first performed in April 1933 for Hitler's birthday. Reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 36.
“Why, of course, the people don't want war.”
In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946) http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp
Nuremberg Diary (1947)
Kontext: p> Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.</p
“We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.”
Statement (1937); quoted in Great Powers and Outlaw States : Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order (2004) by Gerry J. Simpson, p. 291
“The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!”
Speech in Vienna after the Austrian Anschluss (1938); when asked at the Nuremberg trials whether he meant what he said in this speech he replied "Yes, approximately." As reported from testimony in the Imperial War Museum, Folio 645, Box 156, , (20 October 1945), pp. 5-6
To Leon Goldensohn, after being asked if he felt any resentment toward Hitler (15 March 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
To Leon Goldensohn (28 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
“The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!”
Statement at a luncheon on 20 April 1942, as recounted by General Franz Halder, about the Reichstag Fire, which the Nazis had blamed on "Communist instigators" in securing many of their dictatorial powers. In a way that might indicate Göring was simply joking, Halder testified: "At a luncheon on the birthday of Hitler in 1942 the conversation turned to the topic of the Reichstag building and its artistic value. I heard with my own ears when Göring interrupted the conversation and shouted: 'The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!' With that he slapped his thigh with the flat of his hand." Göring later testified: "I had nothing to do with it. I deny this absolutely. I can tell you in all honesty, that the Reichstag fire proved very inconvenient to us. After the fire I had to use the Kroll Opera House as the new Reichstag and the opera seemed to me much more important than the Reichstag. I must repeat that no pretext was needed for taking measures against the Communists. I already had a number of perfectly good reasons in the forms of murders, etc."
To Leon Goldensohn (15 March 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
“Ah, the Jews, the Jews, they'll be the death of me yet!”
Exclamation made by Göring in November 1938, soon after Kristallnacht. He returned from a day of dealing with the aftermath of the vandalism and looting to find his wife Emmy asking him to help Jewish friends of hers yet again, and the following day, received a note from Hitler, indicating this assistance must stop. As quoted in The Reich Marshal: A Biography of Hermann Goering (1974) by Leonard Mosley, p. 229.
Kontext: Now you see. You are even turning the Fuehrer against me. Ah, the Jews, the Jews, they'll be the death of me yet!
“It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito.”
This statement was attributed to Goering in at least one book on World War II, but it was removed from the English Wikipedia page on him on grounds that it was not actually verified that Goering had ever said it.
Disputed
Kontext: In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set – then at least I'll own something that has always worked.
Göring's closing statement to the Nuremberg tribunal (31 August 1946); as quoted in Witness to Nuremberg (2006) by Richard Sonnenfeldt, p. 70
To Leon Goldensohn (27 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
“If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?”
To Leon Goldensohn (27 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
Comment by Goering to a report submitted to him by Oberst Edgar Petersen, the Kommandeur der Erprobungsstellen (commander of German military aircraft test facilties in the Third Reich) on August 13 1942, regarding the usage and deficient installation design for the trouble-prone, complex Daimler-Benz DB 606 "power system" powerplants for the He 177A, Nazi Germany's only operational heavy bomber, which was suffering from an unending series of engine fires.
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
Quelle: [Heinkel He 177-277-274, Manfred, Griehl, Joachim, Dressel, Airlife Publishing, Shrewsbury, UK, 1998, 52, October 28, 2012]
Statement (18 March 1946) Cross Examination of Hermann Goering "Eighty-Fourth Day, Monday, 3/18/1946, Part 16" http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/Goering1.html in Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal Vol. IX. Proceedings: 3/8/1946-3/23/1946 (1947)
To Leon Goldensohn (27 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
Said by Goering to the President of Czechoslovakia Emile Hácha on March 15, 1939, when Hácha, tired and under heavy pressure from Hitler to sign a document effectively handing his country over to Germany, nonetheless tried to resist signing. Hácha eventually gave up, and the combined pressure that Hitler and Goering had put on him caused Hácha to have a heart attack at 4:00 that morning. As quoted in On Borrowed Time: How World War II Began (1969) by Leonard Mosley, p. 167.
Göring is stated to have said this in Non-Germans Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany (2003) by Diemut Majer, p. 60, and in other works, but he might have merely been repeating or paraphrasing the statement, Wer a Jud is, bestimm ich (Only I will decide who is a Jew) which in Strangers at Home and Abroad: Recollections of Austrian Jews Who Escaped Hitler (2000) by Adi Wimmer, p. 6, is said to have originated with Vienna mayor Karl Lueger in response to the observation that despite his anti-semitic speeches he still dined with Jews.
Misattributed
“The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.”
Quelle: Nuremberg Diary (1947), p. 4 (1995 edition); also quoted in Nuremberg: A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals in 1945—46 (1978) by A. Neave, p. 74; original German, as quoted in Der Nürnberger Prozess (1958) by Joe J. Heydecker and Johannes Leeb, p. 103
To Leon Goldensohn (28 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
