Eastern europe Quote by Geert Mak

“If we believe that the Holocaust was a result of the inherent characteristics of Jews, Germans, Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, or anyone else, then we…

— Timothy Snyder

“The Holocaust was in actuality both, but for a long time the overwhelming part of it comprised by the attempted Nazi eradication of European…

— Steven Beller

The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far corners of…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“While this has never been the mainstream view in Germany, there are still political groups there today who refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust on…

— Keith Lowe

Never to forget the Holocaust was not only against Jews. It was mostly against Jews but it was also against homosexuals, gypsies and, let's…

— Ruth Westheimer

“Auschwitz has also become the standard shorthand of the Holocaust because, when treated in a certain mythical and reductive way, it seems to separate…

— Timothy Snyder

The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again,…

— Yehuda Bauer

“against genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. Perhaps the sentiment was best expressed by noted Holocaust”

— Hourly History

Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in different neighborhoods.…

— Bob Balaban

“I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort,…

— J.M. Coetzee

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront…

— Tim Holden

In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association…

— Oliver Stone