Downfall Quotes

Many mistakes have been made. Be ruthless. Life never forgives weakness. This so-called humanity is just priests’ drivel. Compassion is a primal sin. Compassion for the weak is a betrayal of nature.

I always make mistakes when I’m dictating.

I have always obeyed this law of nature by never permitting myself to feel compassion. I have ruthlessly suppressed domestic opposition and brutally crushed the resistance of alien races. It’s the only way to deal with it.

Tomorrow millions of people will curse me, but fate has taken its course.

The Western democracies are decadent. They will be defeated by those disciplined people of the East.

The strongest can only be victorious by eradicating the weak.

The only ones who will survive the battle are the inferior ones. Our best people have fallen already.

Our generals are the scum of the German people! Not a shred of honor! They call themselves generals! Years at military academy just to learn how to hold a knife and fork! For years, the military has hindered my plans! They’ve put every kind of obstacle in my way! What I should have done is liquidate all the high-ranking officers, as Stalin did! I never attended an academy, and yet I have conquered Europe all by myself!

My Fuhrer, as a soldier I suggest we try to break through the encirclement. During the fight for Berlin we’ve already lost 15-20,000 of the younger officers.[Helmuth Weidling]But that’s what young men are for.[Adolf Hitler]

In war, we aren’t always masters of our own time.

In a war like this there are no civilians.

If the war is lost, it’s immaterial if the people perish too. It is not necessary to consider the German people’s primitive survival needs. On the contrary, it is better to destroy those things ourselves. They have proved themselves too weak and it is a law of nature that they will be exterminated.[to Speer]