Quotes by Klaus Fuchs

About Klaus Fuchs:

Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs was a German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who, in 1950, was convicted of supplying information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War. While at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons, and later, early models of the hydrogen bomb.
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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.

Klaus Fuchs

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

Klaus Fuchs

I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.

Klaus Fuchs

I was in the underground until I left Germany.

Klaus Fuchs

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.

Klaus Fuchs

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.

Klaus Fuchs

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

Klaus Fuchs

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

Klaus Fuchs

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.

Klaus Fuchs

Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

Klaus Fuchs

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

Klaus Fuchs

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world.

Klaus Fuchs

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.

Klaus Fuchs

The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.

Klaus Fuchs

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

Klaus Fuchs

I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work.

Klaus Fuchs

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.

Klaus Fuchs

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

Klaus Fuchs

Author Bio

  • NameKlaus Fuchs
  • DescriptionGerman-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy
  • BornDecember 29, 1911
  • DiedJanuary 28, 1988
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionNuclear Scientist; Atomic Spy; Politician; Theoretical Physicist
  • AwardsOrder Of Karl Marx; Patriotic Order Of Merit; National Prize Of East Germany; Hervorragender Wissenschaftler Des Volkes