Hermann Göring quotes from Nuremberg (2025)

View Quote Just because a man is your ally does not mean he is on your side.

View Quote The first time I saw Hitler talk, it was uh... 1922, upstairs of a coffee shop, for maybe 30 people. This was peacetime, but it was a peace without food, jobs, shoes. And he stood up and he said "French bellies are being filled with German pain." And then, "If you make threats, you need bayonets. Rearm! Down this Versailles!" So that night, I became a National Socialist.

View Quote No man has ever beaten me.

View Quote [After being defeated at the trial] Years from now, I wonder what you will say about us. Will you even acknowledge we were human?

View Quote Abracadabra [final words after making a cyanide capsule appear out of thin air through magic]

View Quote [After a trial hearing, at Göring's cell, Douglas is horrified, disgusted, and furious over what he has seen from the video footage of the atrocities committed at the concentration camps]
Douglas Kelley: How is that possible? [short pause, he stands up] What I just saw. How is it possible?
Hermann Göring: [short pause] Himmler.
Douglas Kelley: Himmler wasn't second in command. You were. 1200 camps? What am I supposed to believe that you didn't know?
Hermann Göring: Anyone can fake an atrocity.
Douglas Kelley: So you're saying the filming was a fake, that's your defence?
Hermann Göring: What would you have me say?
Douglas Kelley: About the truth for once!
Hermann Göring: Why? So you can run and tell Jackson. My friend, your hypocrisy is stunning.
Douglas Kelley: My hypocrisy?
Hermann Göring: You think American bullets and bombs don't kill people?! You vaporised 150,000 Japanese at the touch of a button. And you presume to stand in judgment on me for war crimes.
Douglas Kelley: We had every right to defend ourselves.
Hermann Göring: How do you defend yourself on someone else's soil?!
Douglas Kelley: There's a difference between us bombing war factories and civilians dying as collateral damage! And you building 1200 human slaughter houses designed to exterminate an entire race! And you know it!!
Hermann Göring: What do you think war is?!
Douglas Kelley: [pause] Not what I saw today.
Hermann Göring: What do you think the Russian's do to German prisoners of war?! You have your freedom and I am a prisoner because you won and we lost, not because you are morally superior! This trial will be a farce in 15 years. Great conquerors are not thought of as murderers, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great...
Douglas Kelley: You're not Alexander the Great! You are a fat man in a cell. And you knew.
[pause]
Hermann Göring: I have made a mistake. You are not destined for more. You will have an unhappy life, I think. It will all be overshadowed by this. By the time spent with me. You will write your volumes trying to relive it. The one moment in your life when you actually stood with greatness.
Douglas Kelley: [short pause] You think you're a great man? You think that that's your legacy?
Hermann Göring: At least I will have one. You will leave no mark on this world. I am the book! You are merely a footnote.
[pause]
Douglas Kelley: They're gonna kill you! They're gonna hang you by the neck till you piss yourself and die. Your wife will be a widow. Your daughter will be an orphan. And you will have done that to yourself. [Kelley knocks on the cell door to be let out, door opens. He glares at Göring and leaves]