Country Quote by Gunter Grass

“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

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.

— Woody Allen

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite…

— John Fowles

The Nazi leaders….treated Germany like a conquered land, a colony to be used and abused without consideration, to be exploited to the full, and…

— Sebastian Haffner

If you think about determination, if people have a heart and are determined, they can get to that place. But there are a lot…

— Eddie Izzard

A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

— Stefan Heym

After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people…

— Lech Walesa

All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled…

— James Cross Giblin

“The first step in “saving” Germany from the Jews and other inferior races, from this perspective, was the destruction of the Weimar Republic. Like…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“I think," says Professor Carl Hermann, who never left his homeland, "that even now the outside world does not realize how surprised we non-Nazis…

— Milton Mayer

“If we were all blinded to the larger implications of the events that were sweeping upon us it was not entirely due to the…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“In each of the following chapters, dealing in turn with policing and repression, culture and propaganda, religion and education, the economy, society and everyday…

— Richard J. Evans