Cynical Quote by Timothy D. Snyder

“I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort,…

— J.M. Coetzee

“While this has never been the mainstream view in Germany, there are still political groups there today who refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust on…

— Keith Lowe

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

“If we believe that the Holocaust was a result of the inherent characteristics of Jews, Germans, Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, or anyone else, then we…

— Timothy Snyder

“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

“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

People in the West tend to identify with western victims. So even when they think about the Holocaust, they really think about the German…

— Timothy D. Snyder

We consider the Holocaust as being a sort of strange event taking place on another planet; we never understood in a visceral way that…

— Laszlo Nemes

In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

— Bertrand Russell

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront…

— Tim Holden

Even with the help of anti-Russian propaganda in the mass media, Germany has not succeeded in damaging this sympathy.

— Vladimir Putin

The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again,…

— Yehuda Bauer