Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart (July 22, 1892 – October 16, 1946) was a prominent lawyer and later Nazi official in pre-Anschluss Austria, the Third Reich and for wartime Germany in Poland and the Netherlands. At the Nuremberg Trials, Seyss-Inquart faced charges of conspiracy to commit crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes; and crimes against humanity. Seyss-Inquart was executed by hanging for crimes against humanity.
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- I hope that this execution is the last act of tragedy of the Second World War and that the lesson taken from this world war will be that peace and understanding should exist between peoples. I believe in Germany.
- [last words]
- 10/16/46
- Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
- [to G.M. Gilbert, about receiving the death sentence]
- The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. That Austria would one day return to the Reich was a matter of course for all National Socialists and for true Germans in Austria.
- [speech in Berlin, April 7, 1938]
- The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism. From the time of their emancipation their methods were directed to the annihilation of the folkish and moral worth of the German people and to replace a national and responsible ideology with international nihilism. It was really they who stabbed the Army in the back which broke the resistance of the Germans in the First World War. The Jews are the enemy with whom no armistice or peace can be made. We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.
- [speech in Amsterdam, March 12, 1941]
- The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.
- [speech in Amsterdam, March 12, 1941]
About Seyss-Inquart
- Seyss-Inquart, spearhead of the Austrian fifth column, took over the government of his own country only to make a present of it to Hitler, and then, moving north, brought terror and oppression to the Netherlands and pillaged its economy for the benefit of the German juggernaut.
- Robert H. Jackson
