4 Quotes & Sayings By Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg was born in 1902 in Siegen. After receiving his doctorate in law at the University of Heidelberg in 1922, he served as a legal clerk and in the Foreign Office in Berlin. He rose rapidly in the Nazi Party hierarchy, becoming one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates in 1933. Rosenberg published anti-Semitic pamphlets, edited the political journal Völkischer Beobachter (National Observer), and drafted the laws under which Jews were systematically persecuted during this period Read more

He was instrumental in promoting Nazi propaganda abroad and was one of the main collaborators of Josef Goebbels in his propaganda ministry. In 1938 he became Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories (Reichsbevollmächtiger für die besetzten Ostgebiete) and led the planning of mass deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums (Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germandom) was another of his titles.

The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life...
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The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams. Alfred Rosenberg
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A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of outlook, will also one day - despite all hindrances - enforce its realisation in all domains. Alfred Rosenberg
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The forests were crippled, the wheat fields vanished; in place of the grass there reappeared stone and drifting sand. Men perished and moved on, the cities sank back into the sand, the dust settled over them. Thousands of years later Nordic dreamers dug up the petrified culture from the rubble and ashes. Today, the entire picture of the former paradise stands before our eyes as a spent dream which had once produced life, beauty and strength as long as a superior race ruled. It will live again and it will dream again. But as soon as races of a dreamless kind took over and attempted to realize the dream, reality vanished with the dream. Alfred Rosenberg