Walther Funk Quotes

Germany, Economist
August 18, 1890 – May, 31, 1960.

Walther Funk was a German economist and Nazi official who served as Reich Minister for Economic Affairs from 1938 to 1945 and was tried and convicted as a major war criminal by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Sentenced to life in prison, he remained incarcerated until he was released on health grounds in 1957. He died three years later.

Also known as President, Secretary

Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.

Walther Funk
- Russia
- Funk
But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.

Walther Funk
- Persons
- Ignorance
- Guilty

I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.

Walther Funk
- Musical
- Can
- Sopranos
I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.

Walther Funk
- Taken
- Feels
- States