German history Quote by Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“Germany’s highest commander succumbed to a disease common among senior soldiers of many nationalities and eras: he wished to demonstrate to his government and…

— Max Hastings

“The uncompromising pride of the Third Reich had been broken by the world-wide collaboration of people not avid of conquest, but of freedom.”

— Miklós Nyiszli

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

— C. L. R. James

“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

“...that's what Hiltler exemplified: not the triumph of evil but the failure of reason.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Ill-advisedly, the western Allies, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, sought to punish and degrade their adversary rather than rebuilding the…

— Charles River Editors

“By giving Germans back a feeling of collective self-confidence, pride in their nation and themselves, a revived sense of community and the promise of…

— Michael FitzGerald

“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

Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward, let us never forget the duty which we have taken upon us… We are…

— Adolf Hitler

“They had failed to understand that there was no such thing as private life in wartime Germany. No amount of reticence could change the…

— Hans Fallada

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sir, it seems to me that You have been much better informed about the               situation than I was, because it was that awful…

— Christopher S.M. Lyon