"We are proud...of having been officers of the finest corps of the Third Reich. And if I were born again, I would do exactly what I did. Sieg Heil!"
Harald Vanger: I'm not a recluse. I don't close my door to anyone. They just don't visit.
Mikael Blomkvist: [referring to Harald's collection of Nazi rally photographs] Perhaps if you redecorated?
Harald Vanger: Hide the past like they do? Under a thin shiny veneer? Like an IKEA table? I am the most honest of all of them.
Mikael Blomkvist: [referring to Harald's collection of Nazi rally photographs] Perhaps if you redecorated?
Harald Vanger: Hide the past like they do? Under a thin shiny veneer? Like an IKEA table? I am the most honest of all of them.
"How are things in the pastry corps, Nimdok? Tell me again how you saw the smoke from the furnaces and you thought they might be roasting chickens? Or don’t you want to talk about all that, about your pal, the Good Doktor Mengele? For everyone else, it must be Hell, but it must be Heaven for you, eh, my good friend…we’re so much alike… we enjoy the same pleasures, mein good brother."
—AM to Nimdok, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Hutton Gibson is an erstwhile Jeopardy! champion and the father of actor Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson is famously crazy. But Mel Gibson’s crazy doesn’t hold a candle to the crazy of his father Hutton. Now, Hutton is in his nineties, but he still seems to have some crazy left in him.
During cross-examination, prosecutor Hausner asked Eichmann if he considered himself guilty of the murder of millions of Jews. Eichmann replied: "Legally not, but in the human sense … yes, for I am guilty of having deported them". When Hausner produced as evidence a quote by Eichmann in 1945 stating: "I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction", Eichmann countered the claim saying that he was referring only to "enemies of the Reich".
—Edward Snappmann, "The Adolf Eichmann Trial, 1961"
