German economist, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1890-1960)
He ran Nazi Germany's wartime economy and the Reichsbank that processed assets stripped from concentration camp victims. Convicted at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity, he died three years after his early release from prison.
Walther Funk was a finance journalist who joined the Nazi Party in 1931 and rose to a senior post at the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Hitler appointed him Reichsminister for the Economy in 1938 to replace Hjalmar Schacht, then president of the Reichsbank in 1939, placing him at the center of Germany's rearmament and wartime mobilization. He also sat on the Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich and the Central Planning Board. His portfolio included overseeing the expropriation of assets taken from concentration camp victims. Removed from his posts on 5 May 1945 w…
Sourced, dated quotes from Walther Funk
If you follow a certain road for some time, it takes an enormous willpower to leave, although you might recognize that the road was not good.
In world history we have other examples of frightful destruction. There was Alexander the Great and all of the destruction he caused.
Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.
I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath.
I am guilty of one thing - that I should have cleared out and not had anything to do with these criminals in the first place. Later it was too late. I was in up to my neck.
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