Heinrich Himmler Quotes

“The Nazi leaders cannot be voided from human society simply because it is pleasanter or more convenient to regard them now as outside the pale of humanity.”
― Roger Manvell, Heinrich Himmler: The Sinister Life of the Head of the SS and Gestapo

“In our new world there are many emergent states and many longer established nations without the natural self-discipline to resist men similar in nature to the Nazi leaders should they emerge and either stride or slip to power. Such men are not always easy to recognize for what they are until it is too late. This certainly was the case with Himmler. Hitler at first appeared an absurd fanatic, Goebbels a posturing mob-orator, Göring a good-natured ass, Himmler a nonentity. Yet none of them proved to be what they had seemed, or they would never have won by their wits alone the supreme power in a great nation.”
― Heinrich Fraenkel, Heinrich Himmler: The Sinister Life of the Head of the SS and Gestapo

“Reading was for him a narrowing, not a widening experience He saw himself as a teacher and reformer born to change the world.”
― Roger Manvell, Heinrich Himmler: The Sinister Life of the Head of the SS and Gestapo

“Though the idea was Hitler’s, originating in a scribbled note”
― Heinrich Fraenkel, Heinrich Himmler: The Sinister Life of the Head of the SS and Gestapo