Wilm Hosenfeld quotes

Wilm Hosenfeld was a German army officer who is remembered for his humanitarian actions during World War II. Known for saving several Polish people, including the Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman, he acted with compassion despite the horrors of war. He is honored today as a symbol of courage and moral integrity. Here are 2 of his quotes:

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)

Both the Jacobins and Bolsheviks 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