Judaism Quote by Agnes Grunwald-Spier

“They had watched him make a masterwork of scapegoating Jews for Germany’s fall from power and persuade his followers that enlightenment, humanity, and tolerance…

— Jessica Shattuck

“On February 2, 1933, for example, a leading newspaper for German Jews published an editorial expressing this mislaid trust: We do not subscribe to…

— Timothy Snyder

“WE TEND TO assume that institutions will automatically maintain themselves against even the most direct attacks. This was the very mistake that some German…

— Timothy Snyder

“It may be easy with the retrospect of history to see how bad the Nazis were. But to grow up in the midst of…

— Rudi Wobbe

“For so long Marianne and Albrecht and many of their friends had known Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people‘s…

— Jessica Shattuck

“changes. It was the deliberate policy of Nazi Germany to artificially create conditions of state destruction and then steer the consequences towards Jews.”

— Timothy Snyder

The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.

— Stuart L. Pimm

“[...]if Nazi Germany had not invaded other countries but had simply sought to eliminate the entire Jewish population within its own territorial borders, this…

— Mark Gibney

“I have often wondered since if anything could have stemmed the tide at that time. The students saw in the Nazi promises a rising…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely…

— Franz von Papen

“They were too steeped in Hitler’s rhetoric, too cowardly, too implicated in the horrors of his war to reject him.”

— Jessica Shattuck

“the Nazis first and the Soviets later made efforts to direct responsibility for the killing of the Jews to the countries they both invaded.…

— Timothy Snyder