Quotes About Germany

On the ration cards of Nazi Germany, there was no listing for punishment, but everyone had to take their turn. For some it was death in a foreign country during the war. For others it was poverty and guilt when the war was over, when six million discoveries were made throughout Europe.

Hänen ensimmäinen hyökkäyssuunnitelmansa oli sellainen, että hän istutti kotimaahansa sanoja mahdollisimman monille alueille. Hän istutti yötä päivää ja hoiti niitä. Han katseli niiden kasvua, kunnes lopulta kaikkialle oli kohonnut suuria sanametsiä...Saksa oli viljeltyjen ajatusten maa.

The brown-shirted extremist members of the NSDAP (otherwise known as the Nazi Party) had marched down Munich Street, their banners worn proudly, their faces held high, as if on sticks. Their voices were full of song, culminating in a roaring rendition of Deutschland über Alles. Germany over Everything

She was a girl. In Nazi Germany. How fitting that she was discovering the power of words.

Si Alemania es hoy en día, según yo creo, una de las naciones más resistentes al miedo y más equilibradas de Europa, es muy posible que sea porque, en lugar de maldecirse sarcásticamente unos a espaldas de los otros, los políticos de ambos lados realmente se sientan a hablar y a reflexionar.

28 German territorial losses

The attempt to resolve its problems by turning the Eurozone into a bigger Germany is going to prove unworkable. If this is not understood – and it is not, as yet, where it matters – further crises seem certain.

MONCEAU: In my opinion you're hysterical. After all, they were picking up Jews in Germany for years before the war, they've been doing it in Paris since they came in—are you telling me all those people are dead? Is that really conceivable to you? War is war, but you still have to keep a certain sense of proportion. I mean Germans are still people.

always remember that we are in Germany where we have been able to do what would have been possible nowhere else: namely to proclaim as a great mind and profound thinker a mindless, ignorant, nonsense-spreading philosophaster who, through unprecedented, hollow verbiage, thoroughly and permanently disorganizes their brains. I mean our dear Hegel. And

Your General Patton, he refused to arrest the SS because he said it would be silly to get rid of the most intelligent people in Germany. Instead, he packed the Bavarian Provincial Administration full of Nazis.

Mostly they had no place to go. Berberova's description of the face of the continent at the time goes some way toward explaining their inertia: "On the map of Europe were England, France, Germany, and Russia. In the first, imbeciles reigned, in the second living corpses, in the third villains, and in the fourth villains and bureaucrats.

The United States fought Germany and Japan, racist societies, with a segregated army.

I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.

Here's how bizarre the war is that we're in in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany didn't want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass.

There is at least one official voice in Europe that expresses understanding of the methods and motives of President Roosevelt," began a New York Times report in July 1933. "This voice is that of Germany, as represented by Chancellor Adolf Hitler." The German leader told the Times, "I have sympathy with President Roosevelt because he marches straight toward his objective over Congress, over lobbies, over stubborn bureaucracies.

Few figures represent the foreign, particularly German influence on Progressivism better than [President Woodrow] Wilson himself. Wilson's faith that society could be bent to the will of social planners was formed at Johns Hopkins, the first American university to be founded on the German model. Virtually all of Wilson's professors had studied in Germany--as had almost every one of the school's fifty-three faculty members.

The use of the blockade against Germany to starve large numbers of people to death broke through the moral barrier against the mass killing of civilians. It was the precedent for the 'conventional' bombing of civilians in the Second World War and then for the use of the atomic bomb.

Povinností velitel? je ob?tovat N?mecku své pochybnosti.

born from the treaty of Versailles in the wake of the collapse of the empires. In these states, Jews embodied modernity and polarized the rejection of conservative forces. In France, they became the target of legitimists and nationalists opposed to the Third Republic; in Italy, of Catholics horrified by the Piedmont monarchy that had led the peninsular's unification; in Germany, of conservatives who sought to preserve the Christian character of the Prussian monarchy. After

In Germany the government was very bad, but the people were bad too; in Italy the government was forced to be bad to emulate Hitler's laws and so on, but the people were very good.

In 1933 nearly 70 percent of Germany's Jews worked in business and commerce; over 30 percent lived in the city of Berlin alone; and 70 percent lived in cities with a population of over 100,000 inhabitants.

For many Germans, the reduction of unemployment, the construction of the autobahns, and social policy measures merged to form a picture of something being done for the little guy.

half of the German population listened to foreign radio broadcasts at some point, but many only after the fall of Stalingrad.

annihilated" and "exterminated," even though such phraseology had an old history in Germany and had often been used when no mass murder of Jews had yet been envisioned