Death Quote by Terrence Des Pres

“The organization of the camps in the east revealed a contempt for life, the life of Slavs and Asians and Jews anyway, that made…

— Timothy Snyder

“The concentration camps were a laboratory for the Nazis. They put the minorities and intellectuals in there because the general population wouldn't mind losing…

— Wendy Hoffman

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

“It was an interesting dilemma and pointed up a real point of difference between Nazism and Communism as forms of government: there was no…

— Philip Kerr

“In the Soviet Union, for example, shooting or jailing political opponents at first helped the Communist Party and then Josef Stalin gain absolute power.…

— Adam Hochschild

“If the Holocaust is reduced to Auschwitz, then it can easily be forgotten that the German mass killing of Jews began in places that…

— Timothy Snyder

“In the winter of 1941 the German army succeeded in starving between 1.3 and 1.65 million Soviet prisoners of war to death.”

— Keith Lowe

“And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews. And not…

— Christopher Hitchens

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

“In 1929 the leadership replaced institutions for long-term prisoners with work camps, designed to extract minerals in Siberia and other remote areas of the…

— David Priestland

“They could not see the sprawling Sachsenhausen concentration camp under construction that summer just north of Berlin, where before long more than two hundred…

— Daniel James Brown

“Political calculation and local suffering do not entirely explain the participation in these pogroms. Violence against Jews served to bring the Germans and elements…

— Timothy Snyder