One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.

In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

I was not a member of the SS.

The true lessons to be learned from Albert Speer are those that help us to recognize the Albert Speers living amongst us.

For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire the one that inspires all his plans all his actions he would say: "I want to be praised."

Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.

I think the killers get far too much attention.

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.

I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.

I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.

Few people love with the violence they hate.

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.