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Robert Ley
16 quotes
“Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a c-c-c-... I can't even get the word [criminal] out!”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To G.M. Gilbert. Quoted in Gitta Sereny Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (1996), p. 573
“When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want.'”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leipzig, 1939. Quoted in Ronald Smelser Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader (1988), p. 24
“We National Socialists have monopolized all resources and all our energies during the past seven years so as to be able to be equipped for the supreme effort of battle.”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg, Germany - 1948), p. 408
“The trade unions that were swayed by Marxist teaching did not want social peace. They calculated that their chances of acquiring political power would improve with the growing dissatisfaction of the workers. One of the first necessities with which the Hitler Government found itself faced was that of dissolving the organizations that kept alive the antagonism between employers and employees. They were replaced by the Labour Front.”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Bruno Rauecker Social Policy in the New Germany (1936)
“You know we have this new poison gas - I've heard about it. The Fuehrer must do it. He must use it. Now he has to do it!”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Albert Speer, autumn of 1944. Quoted in Albert Speer Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs (1970), p. 417
“Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech given on November 3, 1936. Quoted in Wir alle helfen dem Führer "Schicksal — ich glaube!" (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1937), pp. 103-114
“Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient. The Führer in Nuremberg said: 'Woe to him who does not believe!' He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man. What is wealth? What are possessions? What does it all mean? Problems come despite them, only faith is left. Woe to him who does not believe!”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech given on November 3, 1936. Quoted in Wir alle helfen dem Führer "Schicksal — ich glaube!" (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1937), pp. 103-114
“Our god is the wonderful law of creation, whose amazing unity of all things shows itself if wonderful flowers, in growing trees, in new born children, in the secrets of a mother, in the growth of our people, in work and accomplishment and creation, in life itself. It is the joy we have in everything. How beautiful everything is. Do you feel the same way? I am so happy to be alive.”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech given on March 31, 1939. Quoted in Robert Ley Die Hoheitsträger and titled "Wir oder die Juden" (May 1939), pp. 4-6.
“We believe on this earth in Adolf Hitler alone! We believe in National Socialism as the creed which is the sole source of grace! We believe that Almighty God has sent us Adolf Hitler so that he may rid Germany of the hypocrites and Pharisees.”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in W. W. Coole, Władysław Wszebór Kulski, M. F. Potter Thus Spake Germany (1941), p. 30
“We swear we are not going to abandon the struggle until the Last Jew in Europe has been exterminated and is actually dead. It is not enough to isolate the Jewish enemy of mankind - the Jew has got to be exterminated!”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: May 1943. Quoted in David Cesarani The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation (1994), p. 224
“The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider.”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg, Germany - 1947), p. 118
“Workers of all lands, unite — to smash the rule of English capitalism! You young upward-striving nations of the earth, combine to annihilate the old English dragon who blocks the treasures of the earth and withholds from you the riches of the world.”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Peter Viereck Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler (2004), p. 140
“The fight against the Jews has not ended... it will not have ended until the Jews throughout the world have been exterminated.”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1939. Quoted in Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel The Incomparable Crime (1967)
“Christ, one of the great men of humanity, condemned Judah with the sharpest words. He cursed and damned their devilish goals. His whole life was an antisemitic struggle against Judah and its methods. The Jew Paul, born Saul, also called Schaul, transformed the honest, noble and elevated goals of the founder of the Christian religion into its very opposite, making them serve Jewish purposes. That may not dim the light of this great man of human history.”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Robert Ley Pesthauch der Welt (1944), p. 19
“I admire the new Turkey and its great leader Atatürk.”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source