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Quotes About Germany

Graças a Churchill, não foi a Alemanha que passou a dominar a Europa, mas sim os Estados Unidos e a Rússia. Graças a Churchill, o fascismo deixou de desempenhar qualquer papel significativo no mundo, ficando o liberalismo e o socialismo a travar a luta pela primazia na política interna dos países. (...) Churchill não desejava grande parte destes cenários, embora aceitasse como mal menor num contexto mais pessimista.
~ Sebastian Haffner
en las playas. Los nazis aprovecharon sobremanera esta circunstancia con fines propagandísticos: «Venid y contemplad nuestro alegre país, tranquilo y normal. Venid y contemplad lo bien que continúa yéndoles incluso a los judíos».
~ Sebastian Haffner
Ama iÅŸte bu anda çok tuhaf bir ÅŸey oldu - ve böyle size zaman?m?z?n, hiçbir gazetede yazmayan, en temel siyasi hadiselerinden birini anlatabilme ÅŸans?m oluÅŸtu: Bu davete icabet etmedi insanlar?n çoÄŸu. İstemediler bunu. Almanya'da koca bir neslin, kendilerine bahÅŸedilen bu kocaman hediyeyle, özgür bir özel hayat kurma imkan?yla ne yapaca??n? bilemediÄŸi ortaya ç?kt?.
~ Sebastian Haffner
It is this lack of self-reliance that opens the possibility of immense catastrophes of civilization such as the rule of the Nazis in Germany.
~ Sebastian Haffner
If my experience of Germany has taught me anything, it is this: Rathenau and Hitler are the two men who excited the imagination of the German masses to the utmost; the one by his ineffable culture, the other by his ineffable vileness.
~ Sebastian Haffner
Japan has more specialists of Immanuel Kant than Germany does [RIS 2016 Lecture on A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World]
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The idea of writing the history of philosophy as philosophy began with Hegel's influence in Germany, and then it spread to France and England, and histories of philosophies began to appear everywhere in Europe and America.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
A man named Hitler from Germany has lots of soldiers following him. He calls them storm troopers.
~ Sharon M. Draper
Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Munich was also the base for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, CIA-connected broadcast services that beamed news and anti-Soviet propaganda into Communist countries. Germany's foreign intelligence service, headed by the former Nazi officer Reinhard Gehlen, had its headquarters in the outlying district of Pullach.
~ Stephen Kinzer
The Brest-Litovsk Treaty with Germany had been widely opposed in the party, of course, but it had quickly proved Lenin right. Lenin again got his way.
~ Stephen Kotkin
trial in Germany raised questions about his knowledge of the Dora concentration camp inmates used to assemble his V-2 missiles in horrific conditions. In 1976 a proposal to award him a Presidential Medal of Freedom was rejected because of his Nazi background. 'He has given valuable service to
~ Stephen Walker
In 1920 the National Socialist Party was thought to be a joke," Eisenhuth said. "By 1933 it ruled Germany. If history has taught us nothing else, we have learned that we must defend ourselves against extremism Ã¢â'¬Â¦ from the beginning.
~ Steve Berry
The energy analyst Robert Bryce estimates that simply keeping up with the world's increase in energy use would require turning an area the size of Germany into wind farms every year.
~ Steven Pinker
I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.
~ Giulio Andreotti
May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.
~ Walter Ulbricht
I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.
~ Richard Wagner
en junio se liquidó el partido socialista (el SPD), los nacionalistas abandonaron y los católicos se disolvieron, a cambio de un concordato con el Vaticano que se firmó el 8 de julio. Una ley de 14 de julio de 1933 proclamaba: «El NSDAP es el único partido político de Alemania». En cuatro meses, y con la tolerancia de los representantes de las clases elevadas de la sociedad alemana, se había liquidado la democracia. Instalado
~ Josep Fontana
Und wenn Stalin seine Ge­neräle erschießt, dann brauchen wir das nicht einmal zu tuen. Ob wohl Stalin allmählich auch die Juden liquidiert? Vielleicht nennt er sie nur, um die Welt zu täuschen, Trotzkisten. Wer weiß? Jedenfalls sind wir nun mit Rußland verbunden. Wir haben bisher nur Vorteile davon gehabt. Der Führer hat Stalin in einem Film gesehen, und da war er ihm gleich sympathisch. Da hat eigentlich die deutsch-russische Koalition begonnen".
~ Joseph Goebbels
Many of us served in the war, many died. We have written for Germany, we have died for Germany. We have spilled our blood for Germany in two ways: the blood that runs in our veins, and the blood with which we write. We have sung Germany, the real Germany! And that is why today we are being burned by Germany!
~ Joseph Roth
Hemos perdido mucho, tal vez todo, también el honor. Nos queda una cosa: el glorioso recuerdo del más maravilloso ejército que jamás haya existido y del más grandioso combate que jamás haya tenido lugar. Mantener su memoria en medio de esta época de renegados y de atrofia moral es el más altivo deber de todo aquel que luchó por la causa de Alemania no sólo con el fusil y la granada de mano sino también con el alma y el corazón.
~ Ernst Junger
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
~ Ernst Zundel
Germany's a thundering great nation . . . I wonder if we shall ever fight her.
~ Erskine Childers
Tell me bout this caveman with the clam moustache been barkin speeches all over Germany.
~ Esi Edugyan