Quotes About Germany

After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force.

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that has worked to prevent warfare between the two.

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war.

As a German, in view of the history of World War II and the terrible deeds of the Nazi period, I feel a special obligation to help as much as I can to develop European-Israeli relations and thus contribute to ensuring Israel's future and existence.

The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was a 'regular partner,' a state that occasionally violates laws, not unlike any army during World War II, occasionally using illegal means and methods of warfare.

Ancelotti would be an interesting option for Bundesliga clubs. Of course, there would only be one or two clubs in Germany that would be an option for a world-class coach like him.

I have seen and drawn dying, poisoned worlds. I published a book of drawings called 'Death of Wood' about one such world, on the border between the Federal Republic of Germany and what was then still the German Democratic Republic.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

Germany has a lot of solar power. In fact, in 2005, some 55 or 57 percent of worldwide installations were photovoltaics in Germany. That's 57 percent of all worldwide solar photovoltaics. Because of the high feed-in tariff, they have a way of allowing you to produce electricity and ship it into the grid at very high prices.

If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.

I'm not worried that Germany will always have strikers that are of international calibre.

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

Many American players - Paul Caligiuri, Claudio Reyna, Eric Wynalda, Kasey Keller, Tony Sanneh, Michael Bradley and Steve Cherundolo, just a partial list - have sought the income and challenge of Germany.

The euro is a potent tool used by Germany to engage in permanent monetary dumping.

'Hunger Games' is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It's more similar to China than America, but it's also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few.

Sin embargo, ninguna ha experimentado el desbordamiento fantástico y grotesco de todo eso a la vez, tal y como ocurrió en Alemania en 1923. Ninguna ha vivido esa danza de la muerte carnavalesca y gigante, esa saturnal eterna, sangrienta y grotesca, en la que no sólo se devaluó la moneda, sino todos los demás valores. El año 1923 preparó a Alemania no para el nazismo en particular, sino para cualquier aventura fantástica.

El 14 de septiembre de 1930 tuvieron lugar las elecciones al Reichstag en las que los nazis pasaron meteóricamente de ser un partido ridículo y escindido a ocupar la segunda posición, de doce mandatos a ciento siete.

Aquel 31 de marzo de 1933 bien pudo ser su gran noche. La sala estaba llena de gente con la mirada clavada en el día siguiente, como si se encontrasen ante un profundo abismo. Finck los hizo reír como jamás he oído reír a un público

Los ahuyentó, ni siquiera los expulsó, pues ya ante el primer indicio de amenaza y espanto todos, empezando por el káiser, desaparecieron sin hacer el más mínimo ruido ni dejar el menor rastro, más o menos como, más adelante, entre 1932 y 1933, lo harían los dirigentes de la República. Los políticos alemanes, empezando por los de derechas hasta llegar a los de izquierdas, tienen muy mal perder.

Ella notó mucho antes que Hitler y con mayor intuición y sensibilidad que nosotros cómo en Alemania los tontos y los malvados iban aumentando y tornándose en amenaza.

The German Reich had to cease to be a state in order to become fully an instrument of conquest.

Uno de estos presagios, malinterpretado en extremo e incluso fomentado y elogiado públicamente, fue la obsesión por el deporte que se adueñó de la juventud alemana en aquella época.