Quote by Timothy Snyder

“Germany's crime is the greatest crime the world has ever known, because it is not on the scale of History: it is on the…

— Diane Ackerman

Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious.

— Richard Cohen

“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

“The German organized plundering, planned it, disciplined it, and made it official just as he organized everything else, and then he compiled the most…

— Robert H. Jackson

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

— Jerzy Kosiński

“On the ration cards of Nazi Germany, there was no listing for punishment, but everyone had to take their turn. For some it was…

— Markus Zusak

“Today I look at Munich and see a city empty of all significance, invaded by Prussians and stripped of its Bavarian spirit.”

— Paul Cronin

“Reparations could not make up for the murder perpetrated by the Nazis. But they did launch Germany’s reckoning with itself, and perhaps provided a…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The present destruction of Europe would not be complete and thorough had the German people not accepted freely [the Nazi] plan, participated voluntarily in…

— Raphael Lemkin

“The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life’s every moment caught one out in one form or another.”

— Paul Russell

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

— Deidre Berger

“changes. It was the deliberate policy of Nazi Germany to artificially create conditions of state destruction and then steer the consequences towards Jews.”

— Timothy Snyder