Franz von Papen Quotes

Franz von Papen — German Politician born on October 29, 1879, died on May 02, 1969

Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen zu Köningen was a German nobleman, General Staff officer and politician. He served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933–1934. He belonged to the group of close advisers to president Paul von Hindenburg in the late Weimar Republic. It was largely Papen, believing that Hitler could be controlled once he was in the government, who persuaded Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor in a cabinet not under Nazi Party domination. However, Papen and his allies were quickly marginalized by Hitler and he left the government after the Night of the Long Knives, during which some of his confidantes were killed by the Nazis... (wikipedia)

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.