5 Viktor Lutze Quotes on Leadership

Viktor Lutze quotes on leadership

1. The tragedy in the long history of the German people is that it has seldom had real leaders. Not that it lacked military leadership. What was lacking was political leadership, the political idea, the Weltanschauung (worldview) that National Socialism gives. The S.A. man as a political soldier is the bearer of this Weltanschauung, this National Socialist idea. Political soldiery is the foundation of the state.

2. Not a single Storm Trooper would have followed Rohm. The whole bogy was merely a revolt of leaders, and only quite a small group of the leaders were willing to take part.

6. The day of Roehm's execution, Hitler blandly announced that he had 'relieved...Roehm of his position and ejected him from the Party', and under colour of this macabre euphemism appointed Viktor Lutze as Roehm's successor. But Lutze was no Roehm, and the SA was never again to play a significant role in the power politics of the Third Reich.

7. SA boys received him coolly.

8. SA men should be leaders, not ludicrous apes.