After Quote by Lech Walesa

“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

“For countless Americans, Germany remains the ultimate metaphor of evil...”

— Deidre Berger

German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil…

— George W. Bush

Let's forgive the Nazi war criminals.

— George H. W. Bush

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

— Daniel Barenboim

“Germans adored Hitler; they invested their own egos in him and, after the war, they were unable to acknowledge the inhumanity of his ideals…

— Alexander Mitscherlich

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

— Hans Frank

“Now these [battles] too are over, and already we see once more in the dim light of the future the tumult of the fresh…

— Ernst Jünger

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly…

— Tom Lehrer

Up until the 17th century, Germany was far more advanced, but then everything devastated by the 30 Years War began to fall apart... The…

— W. G. Sebald

And what have we now in Germany? A land of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and…

— Hanna Reitsch

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

— Anastas Mikoyan