My Opposition Quotes

“We have indeed learned nothing from history. The world might be conquered through peaceful actions by free thinkers in an open economy – but not by a corrupt monetary economy and excessive armaments.”
― Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German Against the Third Reich

“February 1, 1943 Frau [Bertha] Döll, the headmaster’s wife, cannot understand why other nations are against us since we only wanted to bring about good (!) things. Such idiocy is much more widespread than one would assume. The majority of the German people have neither intelligence nor any feeling for justice.”
― Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German Against the Third Reich

“Outwardly their banner reads National Socialist. Inwardly: Mean Sons of Bitches.”
― Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German Against the Third Reich

“Very inventive! If the enemy on his part would put a swastika on both buttock halves of each German prisoner we will have perfect world order. Later on during mutual salutation and to ensure proper identification they will show each other their asses.”
― Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German Against the Third Reich

“Former Mayor [Julius Johann] Boehm from Laubach passed me yesterday afternoon on Friedrich Street. He stopped and shouted at me in a loud voice: “Heil Hitler.” Apparently I had answered his greeting too weakly. This same man a few years earlier hollered after me on Wetterfeld Street after I had greeted him with “Good Day.” “You say, ‘Heil Hitler,’ young man!”24 Unfortunately in both cases I could not counter with a fitting repartee – for obvious reasons. Hopefully God keeps us alive for some time yet so after the war I can revisit this matter.”
― Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German Against the Third Reich

“Our newspapers are likewise a chapter in themselves. Every idiotic babbler – whether he is an Old Fighter, flatterer, hypocrite, or salivating bootlicker – presumes to let loose with his muck. People who remain even minimally perceptive do not read this completely foul stuff anymore. The headlines, written by carnival barkers, are sufficient for the thinkers. The entirely dumb readers can gorge themselves. They are beyond hope.”
― Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German Against the Third Reich

“December 31, 1939 The end of the year! The German people will be punished for continuing to offend against all understanding and reason.”
― Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German Against the Third Reich

“Too many of my fellow men allowed themselves to be deluded by National Socialist propaganda. The “Sun” politics ensnared those who should have looked more critically on the Fata Morgana mirage and recognized it for what it was: bluff and swindle; base public fraud. The major guideline was “Just do not think.” And it was so charmingly “beautiful” that the “Leader” makes everything clear for those too lazy to think. What was the common saying, “The Führer will yet make it right”? Or as a pitiful contemporary once said to me, “You should not be bothering with such thoughts; that will all be taken care of.”
― Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German Against the Third Reich

“The road to reason is not passable through propaganda.”
― Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the Third Reich