Aggression Quote by Margaret MacMillan

“Reparations could not make up for the murder perpetrated by the Nazis. But they did launch Germany’s reckoning with itself, and perhaps provided a…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to…

— James F. Byrnes

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

I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions…

— Wilhelm II

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of…

— Franz Halder

Germany's historical responsibility will not expire. We want to live up to it - and you should judge us on it.

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The…

— Monica Crowley

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to…

— George C. Marshall

Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,'…

— Milton Mayer

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open…

— Anonymous

With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results…

— Hjalmar Schacht

I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in…

— Adolf Hitler