Klaus Fuchs Quotations

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.

I was in the underground until I left Germany.

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.

I went first to France and then to England where I studied and at the same time I tried to make a serious study of the basic Marxist philosophy.