10 Klaus Barbie Quotes

Klaus Barbie quotes

1. Perhaps you think that any fool could become a member of the SS. Do you really know what an SS soldier is? He is a superman. He is a professional chosen personally by Hitler. A soldier whose antecedents are analyzed for four generations back before he is given the honor of being allowed to join this elite organization.

2. If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?

3. If I think of all those homosexuals in Germany today, I think I'd hand my German passport back, if I had one.

4. Don't worry. Your friends are dead and you are going to join them.

5. I admire you, but in the end everybody talks.

6. ...Had the eyes of a monster. He was savage. My God, he was savage! It was unimaginable. He broke my teeth, he pulled my hair back. He put a bottle in my mouth and pushed it until the lips split from the pressure.

7. ...pale eyes, extraordinarily mobile, like those of an animal in a cage.

8. After 19 days of interrogation, they put me in a cell. They would carry by the bodies of tortured people. With the point of a boot, Barbie would turn their heads to look at their faces, and if he saw someone he believed to be a Jew, he would crush it with his heel.

1. What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.

2. When I stand before the throne of God, I shall be judged Innocent