History Quote by Götz Aly

“I think that anti-Jewish prejudice is an unfailing sign of a sick and disordered person ... It's a horrible, conspiratorial, pseudo-intellectual, mean spirited, eventually…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The racist and colonial idea that the Holocaust began as an elemental explosion of primitive antisemitism arose as Nazi propaganda and apologetics.”

— Timothy Snyder

There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean…

— Roald Dahl

Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only…

— Dennis Prager

As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally…

— A. C. Cuza

“To understand anti-Semitism within Germany’s Gentile majority, one has to talk about the skills, educational fervor, and rapid social rise of striking numbers of…

— Götz Aly

“Rather than demand the assimilation of Jews, he rejected them; and instead of trying to convert Jews, he declared them an implacable enemy, not…

— Helmut Walser Smith

“Jew hatred was overwhelmingly religious in nature and began to wane only in the age of enlightened absolutism in Western and Central Europe. Still,…

— Götz Aly

“The warring love and hatred—love for his people and hatred for the oppressors of his people—that left him exhausted and sick in spirit. 'Daughter,”

— Carson McCullers

“without fighting back. The persecution of the Jews”

— Miklós Nyiszli

“We can understand the historical reasons why many embrace hatred, while refusing to surrender to the ills of the past.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“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