Clown Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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

— Deidre Berger

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“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

The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not…

— Adolf Hitler

“Germany’s siege mentality and gnawing sense of encirclement (the need to ‘storm out of the fortress’ to prevent a Russian attack); Austria-Hungary’s hatred of…

— Paul Ham

Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.

— Bill Nighy

“German boys! Do you know the country without freedom, the country of terror and tyranny? Yes, you know it well, but are afraid to…

— Helmuth Hübener

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi government exudes through every neutral state inside information about the frightful vengeance…

— Winston Churchill

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

— Thomas Mann

Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the majority of…

— Michael Tobias

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

— Douglas Hurd

“Italy: Germany, Germany. Germany is a really really nice place. Even though I'm your prisoner, you give me food, and it doesn't suck like…

— Hidekaz Himaruya