Frases de Heinrich Himmler

„La mejor arma política es el terror. La crueldad impone respeto; los hombres podrán odiarnos pero no queremos su cariño, sólo queremos su miedo“

—  Heinrich Himmler

„Me falta en gran medida esa forma natural de ser superior que le encantaría tener.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

Entrada en el diario (November 1921), citado en The Hidden Files (1992) por Derek Raymond

„«También quiero mencionar un tema muy difícil antes de que aquí, completamente abierta. Habría que discutir entre nosotros y, sin embargo, no obstante, no hablaremos de ello en público. Del mismo modo que no dudó el 30 de junio para llevar a cabo nuestro deber, como se ordenó, y están los camaradas que habían fallado en contra de la pared y dispararles. Acerca de lo que nunca hemos hablado, y nunca va a hablar. Que, gracias a Dios, una especie de tacto natural para nosotros, una conclusión inevitable de este hecho, que nunca hemos conversado sobre esto entre nosotros, nunca hablan de ello, todo el mundo se estremeció y todo el mundo estaba claro que la próxima vez que iba a hacer la lo mismo otra vez, si fuera ordenado y necesario. Estoy hablando de la "evacuación judía", el exterminio del pueblo judío. Es una de esas cosas que se dicen fácilmente. "El pueblo judío está siendo exterminado", cada miembro del partido le dirá, "perfectamente claro, es parte de nuestros planes, estamos eliminando los Judios, exterminio, ¡Ja! Un asunto pequeño."“

—  Heinrich Himmler

Y luego a lo largo de todos ellos vienen, todos los 80 millones de alemanes en posición vertical, y cada uno tiene su Judio decente. Ellos dicen: todos los demás son unos cerdos, pero aquí es un Judio de primera clase.»
El discurso de Posen a oficiales de las SS (6 de octubre de 1943)

„La mayoría de ustedes saben lo que significa cuando un centenar de cadáveres yacen lado a lado, o 500, o mil. Para que se sacó, y al mismo tiempo - salvo excepciones provocadas por la debilidad humana - para seguir siendo personas decentes, eso es lo que nos ha hecho duros. Esta es una página de gloria en nuestra historia, que nunca se ha escrito y nunca se ha escrito …. Teníamos el derecho moral, que tenía el deber de nuestro pueblo, para destruir a este pueblo, que querían destruir.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

El discurso de Posen a oficiales de las SS (6 de octubre de 1943)

„El antisemitismo es exactamente lo mismo que de desinfección. Deshacerse de los piojos no es una cuestión de ideología, es una cuestión de limpieza. En apenas esta misma manera el antisemitismo para nosotros no ha sido una cuestión de ideología, sino una cuestión de limpieza.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

Citado en "Conscience and Memory: Meditations in a Museum of the Holocaust" - Page 29 - por Harold Kaplan - History - 1994

„No vamos a perder mucho tiempo en los Judios. Es muy bueno para poder familiarizarse con la raza judía en el pasado. Cuanto más que morir, mejor, golpeándolos representa una victoria para nuestro Reich. Los Judios debe sentir que hemos llegado. Queremos poner a la mitad y tres cuartas partes de todos los Judios del Vístula. Vamos a aplastar a los Judios siempre que podamos. Todo está en juego. Obtener los Judios fuera del Reich, de Viena, en todas partes. No tenemos necesidad de Judios en el Reich. Es probable que la línea del Vístula, detrás de esta línea no más. Nosotros somos el pueblo más importante aquí.»“

—  Heinrich Himmler

25 de noviembre de 1939. Citado en "Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy" - Page 160 - por Ismail K Merchant, Richard L. Rubenstein, John K. Roth - History - 2003

„Ich bin Heinrich Himmler.»“

—  Heinrich Himmler

Yo soy Heinrich Himmler.

„Mi honor es mi lealtad.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

Formulado como el santo y seña de la élite de las SS nazis, que se traduce en The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), por Hannah Arendt Ch. 10

„Alemanes que deseen utilizar armas de fuego debería unirse a la SS o las SA - los ciudadanos no necesitan armas, como pistolas que no sirve al Estado.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

Citado en "Critical Issues in Biomedical Science" - Page 86 - por Leland L. Smith - Science - 2002

„Espero ver el mismo concepto judío completamente destruido.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

23 de marzo de 1941. Citado en Murderous Science" - Page 48 - por Benno Müller-Hill - History - 1998

„My honor is my loyalty.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

Himmler formulated this as the watchword of the Schultzstaffel, an organization that eventually became an enormous organization ranging from the staff of the concentration camps to the Gestapo and SD, to the Waffen-SS, Hitler's personal soldiers. Above all else, Himmler and the rest of the Nazi leadership stressed the importance of loyalty to the Reich and the Fuehrer. As translated in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), by Hannah Arendt Ch. 10
Undated

„Anyone who thinks of homosexual *love* is our enemy. We reject anything which emasculates our people and makes it a plaything for our enemies, for we know that life is fight, and it is madness to think that men will ever embrace fraternally.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

14 May 1928
1920s

„One basic principle must be the absolute rule for the S. S. men. We must be honest, decent, loyal, and comradely to members of our own blood and nobody else. What happens to a Russian and a Czech does not interest me in the least. What the nations can offer in the way of good blood of our type we will take, if necessary by kidnapping their children and raising them here with us. Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture: otherwise it is of no interest to me. Whether ten thousand Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch interests me only in so far as the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished. We shall never be tough and heartless where it is not necessary, that is clear. We, Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude towards animals, will also assume a decent attitude towards these human animals. But it is a crime against our blood to worry about them and give them ideals, thus causing our sons and grandsons to have a more difficult time with them. When somebody comes up to me and says: 'I cannot dig the anti-tank ditch with women and children, it is inhuman, for it would kill them,' then I have to say: 'You are the murderer of your own blood, because if the anti-tank ditch is not dug German soldiers will die, and they are the sons of German mothers. They are our own blood….“

—  Heinrich Himmler

Our concern, our duty, is our people and our blood. We can be indifferent to everything else. I wish the S.S. to adopt this attitude towards the problem of all foreign, non-Germanic peoples, especially Russians....
The Posen speech to SS officers (6 October 1943)
1940s

„I don't want to hear anymore of your difficulties. For an SS officer there are no difficulties; his duty is always to remove difficulties himself as soon as they arise. How you do it is for you to figure out, not me.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

Addressing Rudolph Höss, perhaps in July 1942, during a visit to Birkenau POW camp (Kriegsgefangenenlager), where the inmates' and guards' deficient living conditions were pointed out, from Höss's autobiography http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2006/04/correction-corner-2-himmlers-visit-to.html written in a Polish prison, Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, pp. 286ff. (1996)
1940s

„Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA — ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

This quotation has not been confirmed to come from Himmler, its attribution to him on the Internet coming from some point before 2000, as in the Site of the Sentient quotelist http://web.archive.org/web/20000823073240/http://www.siteofthesentient.com/alltags.html
Disputed

„… to put an end to the epidemics, we were forced to burn the bodies of an incalculable number of people who were destroyed by the disease. So we were forced to build crematoria, and on this account they are loosing a bond for us. "He also stated that he punished the culprit if the atrocities occurred in the camps." On the Einsatzgruppen: "The war on the Eastern front made the demands more difficult for our soldiers. A terrible climate, never-ending distances, an enemy population and constantly apparent partisans. Just because it was difficult, the troops prevailed. So they were forced to destroy entire villages if there was resistance and gunfire from such a village. Russians are not ordinary enemies, we can not understand their mentality. In the most desperate situations, they would refuse to capitulate. If, because of these difficulties in the East, the Jewish people suffered large casualties, it must be remembered that the German people also suffered severely."“

—  Heinrich Himmler

April 20, 1945 in a meeting with Norbert Masur, a representative of the World Jewish Congress.

„In the brief monthly reports of the Security Police, I only want figures on how many Jews have been shipped off and how many are currently left.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

To Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Quoted in "Hitler and the Final Solution" - Page 137 - by Gerald Fleming - History - 1987
Undated

„I know there are some people in Germany who become sick when they see these black uniforms, we understand the reason for this, and do not expect we shall be loved by all that number of people; those who come to fear us in any way or at any time must have a bad conscience towards the Fuhrer and the nation. For these persons we have established an organisation called the Security Service.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

From his treatise The Security Squadron as an Anti-Bolshevik Battle Organisation, 1936
1930s

„It is vital we rid ourselves of [homosexuals]; like weed we must pull them up, throw them on the fire and burn them. This is not out of a spirit of vengeance, but of necessity; these creatures must be exterminated.“

—  Heinrich Himmler

18 Feb 1937
1930s