German Reich

Max Planck

Science

1858–1947

"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."

Adolf Hitler

Politics

1889–1945

"This German Volksgemeinschaft is truly practical socialism and therefore National Socialism in the best sense of the word. Here everyone is obligated to carry his load."

Theodor Mommsen

Science

1817–1903

"Revolutions have nowhere ended, and least of all in ROme, without demanding a certain number of victims, who under forms more or less borrowed from justice atone fro the fault of defeat as though it were a crime."

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Art

Expressionism

1880–1938

"though strange to the ordinary man, was not meant to shock, it was a pure and simple compulsion to integrate art and life.."

Georg Cantor

Mathematics

1845–1918

"I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers."

Charlotte Salomon

Art

Expressionism

1917–1943

"'Life? or Theater?' - A Play with Music - C.S."

"There is something beautiful about virtue, Captain. But I am just a poor guy."

Paul Tillich

Religion

1886–1965

"Philosophy asks the question of reality as a whole; it asks the question of the structure of being. And it answers in terms of categories, structural laws, and universal concepts."

Edmund Landau

Mathematics

1877–1938

"I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics."

Regina Jonas

Religion

1902–1944

"In spite of everything, in dealing with the theme at hand, one must, as is often repeated here, take both the changing times and the sensibilities of earlier times into account."

Gustav Radbruch

Philosophy

1878–1949

"Of course it is true that the public benefit, along with justice, is an objective of the law. And of course laws have value in and of themselves, even bad laws: the value, namely, of securing the law against uncertainty."

Herwarth Walden

Art

Expressionism

1878–1941

"Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being.. every other impression becomes, for him, an inner expression."

Gottfried Feder

Economics

1883–1941

"The only cure, the radical means to heal suffering humanity is the abolition of enslavement to interest on money."