Himmler on the Living Past and Future in Each

"The wisdom of a thousand generations slumbers in you. Waken it and you have found the key which will open the doors of your truest aspirations. Only he who esteems himself is worthy of being a man. Only he is a man who bears the living past and future in himself, for only he is able to stand above the present hour. And only he who is master of the present is successful; he alone is fulfilled. As only in fulfillment is divinity."

- Heinrich Himmler

Himmler, in front of Wewelsburg...

The Decent One

"The upper half is the teacher, the lower half is the sadist."

- Heydrich, remarking on Himmler

Before the Night of the Long Knives

"National-Socialism is a revolt of the old German tribes of the primeval forest against the Latin civilization of Rome."

- Mussolini, aghast at the Röhm purge

"All revolutions devour their own children."

- Röhm, from Vergniaud, to Hans Frank

Heinrich Himmler Enjoying a Prize Tulip

"Every plant unto thee proclaimeth the laws everlasting,

Every flower speaks louder and louder to thee"

- J.W. von Goethe, "Metamorphosis of Plants" 

Himmler vexed by the form of a tulip at a farm in the Netherlands.