Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then indeed the whole of National Socialism has been in vain. To the contrary, in my opinion one should bury bronze plates on which it is recorded that we have had the courage to carry out this great and so necessary work.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A call to record genocidal acts on bronze plates for future generations.
- In plain terms
- Demand that atrocities be remembered rather than forgiven.
- What can you take from it?
- This reveals intent to normalize crimes against humanity.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why do perpetrators seek remembrance?
- How should society respond to such demands?
Another view
This is historical evidence, not a valid moral position.
More from Odilo Globocnik
This is one of the most highly secret matters there are, perhaps the most secret. Anybody who speaks about it is shot dead immediately. Two talkative people di…
Permalink to quote #3 I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics …
Permalink to quote #5 You will have very large quantities of clothes to disinfect, ten or twenty times as much as the 'Textiles Collection,' which is only being carried out in order…
Permalink to quote #2
Related quotes
You will have very large quantities of clothes to disinfect, ten or twenty times as much as the 'Textiles Collection,' which is only being carried out in order…
Odilo GlobocnikOdilo Globocnik quote #2 It was no secret in higher Party circles that the Jews were to be exterminated.
Viktor BrackViktor Brack quote #2 If Hitler wouldn't have killed the Jews, I'd now have to shine their shoes in the middle of Freedom Avenue.
Vytautas SustauskasVytautas Sustauskas quote #2