Accepted Quote by Douglas Hurd

Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers.

— Jostein Gaarder

“Every time this happened, some arbitrarily chosen scapegoats were punished for overzealousness in carrying out the old policy. These were circumstances that encouraged fatalism…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

“The documentary and anecdotal evidence is overwhelming and indisputable; the Red Army, which had behaved so heroically on the battlefield, raped the women of…

— Andrew Roberts

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But…

— W. Averell Harriman

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company.

— Ian Kershaw

Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

— Anonymous

“What Hitler and Stalin had in common was the same aspiration that animated the first inquisitors - the simple but deadly notion that it…

— Jonathan Kirsch

A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours,…

— Paul Johnson

“Stalin's mental journey, by 1943, proceeded in the opposite direction to that of Hitler. One moved toward reality; the other moved away from it.…

— Martin Amis

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

— Roger Williams

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

— Jessica Shattuck