Quote by Geert Mak

“After mentioning these and other examples, Modris Eksteins correctly observes that the Holocaust was not exclusively a German affair. Hitler may have found ‘willing…

— Geert Mak

“The retaliation came in all varieties. One variety came largely from the Soviet soldiers. When they entered East Prussia in January, their propaganda officers…

— Geert Mak

“The disaster at the Chernobyl plant, along with the war in Afghanistan and the cruise-missile question, is generally seen today as the start of…

— Geert Mak

“It was Thucydides who described the dealings between states as a world in which the strong do as they like and the weak put…

— Geert Mak

“[Over Basken] Hun taal knarst als een spijkerschrift”

— Geert Mak

“During the Second World War 70,000 Jews were murdered in Latvia, 30,000 of them by summer 1941. In Lithuania, almost all of the country’s…

— Geert Mak

“Then there is the machine that belonged to Louis Blériot himself. I found an old newspaper article by the Dutch correspondent Alexander Cohen, dealing…

— Geert Mak

“time for things like wedding rings”

— Geert Mak

“The Kristallnacht had to be carefully orchestrated, while the Viennese pogroms had largely flared up of their own accord. In Das Schwarze Korps, the…

— Geert Mak

“In a certain sense the Holocaust can be seen as an expression of an almost religious fanaticism, and at the same time as a…

— Geert Mak

“Hitler’s regime maintained its generally accepted authority in Germany almost until the bitter end. In fact, large parts of the population supported that regime…

— Geert Mak

“A few days later, from a wall along the river, Martha Gellhorn watched the Soviet troops move on. ‘The army came in like a…

— Geert Mak