Complicity Quote by Paul Russell

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

— Deidre Berger

“They had failed to understand that there was no such thing as private life in wartime Germany. No amount of reticence could change the…

— Hans Fallada

“Let those disbelieve it who will, Adolf Hitler has done more for Germany since he came to power than any other statesman at any…

— Heinz A. Heinz

“Ill-advisedly, the western Allies, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, sought to punish and degrade their adversary rather than rebuilding the…

— Charles River Editors

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

— Jerzy Kosiński

“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

“Germany’s emergence as a self-confident, non-aggressive, democratic power – not to speak of the humanitarian example it has set – is a pill too…

— John le Carré

“The world, however, is indebted to Germany in a terrifying way, because she demonstrated to everyone what the ultimate conclusions of negative and destructive…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“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

“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

“Germany was being run by a loudmouthed rabble-rouser, bent on baiting other nations to war and making life miserable for countless innocent citizens. And…

— Jessica Shattuck

“History was so quickly remade, and so successfully, that it can truly be said that the easterners did not feel then, and do not…

— Anna Funder