Of course, the terrible things I heard from the Nuremberg Trials, about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply. But I wasn't able to see the connection with my own past. I was satisfied that I wasn't personally to blame and that I hadn't known about those things. I wasn't aware of the extent. But one day I went past the memorial plaque which had been put up for Sophie Scholl in Franz Josef Strasse, and I saw that she was born the same year as me, and she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler. And at that moment I actually sensed that it was no excuse to be young, and that it would have been possible to find things out.

I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend.

After visiting these two places you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most sig…

I would have preferred it if he'd followed his original ambition and become an architect.

We used to get arrested every other week - that is, the old man would get arrested.

Eichmann was in every respect a painstaking bureaucrat. He at once recorded in the files every discussion he ever had with any of his superiors. He always told…

I am the only living witness but I must say the truth. Contrary to the opinion of the National Socialists that the Jews were a highly organized group, the appa…