Origine: Frase pronunciata con l'inizio di una campagna propagandistica contro i cechi, prodromo dell'invasione dei Sudeti da parte delle truppe di Hitler; citata in Edward Klein, La maledizione dei Kennedy, Milano, Mondadori, 2007, p. 127. ISBN 978-88-04-53311-5
Hermann Göring frasi celebri
“Quando sento qualcuno parlare di cultura, la mano mi corre al revolver.”
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Origine: Pare in effetti che Göring amasse ripetere questa frase, che tuttavia origina da una battuta del dramma Schlageter, in cui un personaggio si rivolge all'omonimo protagonista esclamando "Quando sento parlare di cultura [...] tolgo la sicura alla mia Browning!" La battuta originale in lingua tedesca http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Leo_Schlageter#Creation_of_heroic_mythology
Origine: Dinanzi al Tribunale del Reich; citato in Reimund Schnabel, Il disonore dell'uomo, 1966.
Origine: Dal processo di Lipsia del 1933; citato in Stella Blagoeva, Gheorghi Dimitrov, Editori Riuniti, 1972.
“Io non ho nessuna coscienza! La mia coscienza è Adolf Hitler.”
Origine: Citato in Theodor Schieder, Hermann Rauschning «Gespräche mit Hitler» als Geschichtsquelle, Opladen 1972, p. 19, nota 25; citato in Joseph Ratzinger, Euntes Docete, Commentaria Urbaniana, Roma, XLIII/1990/3, p. 431-436; citato in Newman – uno dei grandi maestri della Chiesa http://www.newmanfriendsinternational.org/italian/?p=50, Centro Internazionale degli Amici di Newman.
Origine: Citato in Ennio Di Nolfo, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. [Dal 1918 ai giorni nostri], Editori Laterza, Roma, 2008, pagg. 397-398. ISBN 978-88-420-8734-2
Hermann Göring: Frasi in inglese
To Leon Goldensohn (27 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
Said by Goering to the President of Czechoslovakia Emile Hácha on March 15, 1939, when Hácha, tired and under heavy pressure from Hitler to sign a document effectively handing his country over to Germany, nonetheless tried to resist signing. Hácha eventually gave up, and the combined pressure that Hitler and Goering had put on him caused Hácha to have a heart attack at 4:00 that morning. As quoted in On Borrowed Time: How World War II Began (1969) by Leonard Mosley, p. 167.
Göring is stated to have said this in Non-Germans Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany (2003) by Diemut Majer, p. 60, and in other works, but he might have merely been repeating or paraphrasing the statement, Wer a Jud is, bestimm ich (Only I will decide who is a Jew) which in Strangers at Home and Abroad: Recollections of Austrian Jews Who Escaped Hitler (2000) by Adi Wimmer, p. 6, is said to have originated with Vienna mayor Karl Lueger in response to the observation that despite his anti-semitic speeches he still dined with Jews.
Misattributed
“Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.”
Instruction to the Prussian police (1933); as quoted in The House that Hitler Built (1937) by Stephen Henry Roberts. p. 63
Interview in Göring's cell (3 January 1946)
Nuremberg Diary (1947)
To Leon Goldensohn (24 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
Speech in Frankfurt (3 March 1933), as quoted in Gestapo : Instrument of Tyranny (1956) by Edward Crankshaw, p. 48
To Leon Goldensohn (27 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
Letter sent to Reinhard Heydrich, 31 July 1941 http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/order1.htm
Göring's closing statement to the Nuremberg tribunal (31 August 1946)