Century Quote by Robert Runcie

“Christianity did not create the Holocaust—indeed, Nazism was anti-Christian—but it made it possible. Without Christian antisemitism, the Holocaust would have been inconceivable.…”

— Michael L. Brown

“Rather than demand the assimilation of Jews, he rejected them; and instead of trying to convert Jews, he declared them an implacable enemy, not…

— Helmut Walser Smith

If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember…

— John Haynes Holmes

“You could taste antisemitism everywhere; the air of Germany was permeated by it. All the unavoidable consequences of military defeat, revolution, a ruinous inflation,…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Antisemitism did not begin in Germany, or anywhere else, in 1918; Jews had been regarded as dangerous outsiders for centuries, and anti-Jewish feeling usually…

— Phyllis Goldstein

The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without…

— Christopher Isherwood

Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.

— Howard Jacobson

“The racist and colonial idea that the Holocaust began as an elemental explosion of primitive antisemitism arose as Nazi propaganda and apologetics.”

— Timothy Snyder

“While the Nazi party never officially condemned the Christian churches of the country (Hitler didn't want that problem on top of all the others),…

— Rudi Wobbe

“The Nazis were good at creating hatred. And when you hate you feel a need to triumph. That triumph Hitler knew for a while…

— Glenn Haybittle

Since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is no longer respectable. It was in the 1920s and '30s, but the Holocaust obviously changed that.

— Andrew Neil

The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first.

— Tom Metzger