German Identity Quotes

Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

I don't think my generation carries the weight of World War II anymore. But I've got to tell you, even if we don't really talk about it, we get reminded constantly by other people or other countries. I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

Germans are not tainted by intermarriage with any other nations.

Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways, it's a blessing. It makes them cautious.

The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

I ask myself where Germany stands today and where it wants to go.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

Oil, Jews and Germans, are our most important export commodities.

I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.

Long live eternal Germany!

If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.

The Germans must be together.

Oh men of Germany! The whole German Fatherland stands again before you in the august halo of past centuries… the whole German Volk In brotherly community… Be Germans, be one, will to be one by love and loyalty, and no devil will vanquish you.

I no longer know of political party, I only know Germans

I think that if a United States of Europe were to be formed, it would be in our interests to fight for it, as all our old traditions would remain in such a united Europe, whereas if we were to start now as part of the Russian Empire, everything that had ever been in Germany would disappear.

Ich bin ein Berliner. (I am a Berliner.)

There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.

I believe that it is the role of the German people to be great, to be one of those who rule.

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. Wir Deutsch fürchten Gott, aber sonst nichts in der Welt.

Perhaps we Germans are a bit sensitive when it comes to walls and race.

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.