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Wilm Hosenfeld
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“With this horrendous murder of the Jews we have lost the war. We have brought an indelible shame upon ourselves, a curse that cannot be lifted. We deserve no mercy, we are all guilty together.”
Wilm Hosenfeld (1895–1952) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 16 June 1943; attributed by Richard J. Evans in "Why Did Stauffenberg Plant the Bomb?", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 January 2009.
“Both the and butchered their upper ruling classes and executed their royal families. They broke with Christianity and waged war on it, intending to wipe it off the face of the earth. They succeeded in involving the people of the nations in wars fought with energy and enthusiasm - the revolutionary wars of the past, the war against Germany today. Their theories and revolutionary ideas had enormous influence beyond the borders of their own countries. The methods of National Socialism are different, but basically they too pursue a single idea: the extermination and annihilation of people who think differently from them.”
Wilm Hosenfeld (1895–1952) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Szpilman, The Pianist, page 193. Diary entry, 18 January 1942.