Wilhelm Frick quotes

Wilhelm Frick was a German lawyer and prominent Nazi official who served as Minister of the Interior in Adolf Hitler’s government. As one of the principal architects of Nazi legislation and racial policy, his actions contributed significantly to the regime’s crimes. He was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and executed. Here are 10 of his quotes:

Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.

Wilhelm Frick

As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.

Wilhelm Frick

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

Wilhelm Frick

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

Wilhelm Frick

I am skeptical about preventing wars. I doubt if they can be prevented. There will always be wars. Judging by past experiences, working for peace now would be as ineffective as ever. It's a law of nature.

Wilhelm Frick

Frick, the ruthless organizer, helped the party to seize power, supervised the police agencies to insure that it stayed in power, and chained the economy of Bohemia and Moravia to the German war machine.

Wilhelm Frick

A minister of interior who knew not even what went on in the interior of his own office, much less the interior of his own department, and nothing at all about the interior of Germany.

Wilhelm Frick

It was sad. It's war. Many others died, too. It's war.

Wilhelm Frick

Personally, he is not particularly depressed, because of the "nature of life, the laws of nature, the ways of war."

Wilhelm Frick