Foreign country Quote by Markus Zusak

“The mere punishment of the defendants, or even thousands of others equally guilty, can never redress the terrible injuries which the Nazis visited on…

— Anonymous

“Germany's crime is the greatest crime the world has ever known, because it is not on the scale of History: it is on the…

— Diane Ackerman

“Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned something about themselves. They know what they did or…

— Fern Schumer Chapman

“The present destruction of Europe would not be complete and thorough had the German people not accepted freely [the Nazi] plan, participated voluntarily in…

— Raphael Lemkin

“But most- and worst- of all, as we and all the world slowly learned about the full extent of Hitler's Final Solution, we realized…

— Irmgard A. Hunt

“all major German crimes took place in areas where state institutions had been destroyed, dismantled, or seriously compromised.”

— Timothy Snyder

“The myth of their total responsibility arose during postwar trials in the Federal Republic of Germany as a way to protect the majority of…

— Timothy Snyder

“Good for Germany, that’s what everyone said about Hitler and his band of murderous monsters. True, he’d returned Germany’s pride, but at what price?…

— Roberta Kagan

“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

“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

“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“The Germans have removed, murdered or burned alive tens of thousands of Jews. Out of the three million Polsih Jews, no more than 10…

— Diane Ackerman