Quote by Helmut Walser Smith

“they called in the Prussian army to restore order and protect the Jews, who numbered just over three hundred men, women, and children in…

— Helmut Walser Smith

“Why is it a shame for me to cause them to die and try to exterminate them, tell me? You did not talk that…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Prussians were singularly well prepared in other areas as well. They invented the “dog tag” in 1870: an oval disc worn by every soldier…

— Geoffrey Wawro

“In 1900, imperial Germany safeguarded the rule of law and ensured the protection of its citizens, including Jews. Four decades later, the Third Reich…

— Helmut Walser Smith

“Today I look at Munich and see a city empty of all significance, invaded by Prussians and stripped of its Bavarian spirit.”

— Paul Cronin

Germans must fight Jews, that organized body of world criminals against whom Christ, the greatest anti-Semite of all time, had fought.

— Julius Streicher

“without fighting back. The persecution of the Jews”

— Miklós Nyiszli

“Still, by the end of the thirteenth century, most European Jews were forced to wear badges or distinguishing clothing. The aim was to humiliate…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“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

“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

“Soldiers went off to fight the Nazis with pictures of girls like you in their helmets.”

— Susan Sey

In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks,…

— Amy Waldman