Sigmar Gabriel Quotes

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together.

Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.

The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future.

I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?

Germany stays and falls with the success of the policy of Hitler.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

I was thrilled to see the movies [WW II newsreels] of marching Germans … we all knew that Hitler hated communists …

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews.

For me, Hitler was the personification of evil and the primary justification of the atomic bomb work. Now that the bomb could no longer be used against the Nazis, doubt arose. These doubts, even if they did not appear in official reports, were discussed in private conversations.

The Nazi gas chambers are but a detail of history

In German history, we don't have many reasons to be proud.

The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

I am not a German bitter-ender. I am, though, a German never-forgetter.

I found a book facing out that I'd always meant to read: William Shirer's 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.' About a third of the way through, I suddenly, finally caught up to the fact that Shirer had been there in Berlin, from 1934 on, and was finally kicked out when the U.S. entered the war.

In the 20th century, in the darkest period of German and European history, an insane racist ideology, born of neopaganism, gave rise to the attempt, planned and systematically carried out by the regime, to exterminate European Jews. The result has passed into history as the Shoah.

In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.

Without the railways, the Holocaust wouldn't have happened. I don't actually think the second world war would have happened without them.