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Quotes About Nazis

In those days," Ruth-Alice recalled, "the Nazis were always marching and saying, 'The future belongs to us! We are the future!' And we young ones who were against Hitler and the Nazis would hear this and we wondered, 'Where is our future?' But there in Finkenwalde, when I heard this man preaching, who had been captured by God, I thought: 'Here. Here is our future.
~ Eric Metaxas
For refusing to swear his allegiance to Hitler, Barth would be kicked out of Germany in 1934, and he would become the principal author of the Barmen Declaration, in which the Confessing Church trumpeted its rejection of the Nazis' attempts to bring their philosophy into the German church.
~ Eric Metaxas
He did not owe the Nazis the truth about the manuscript any more than the hypothetical little girl in his essay owed her class the truth about her father's vices.
~ Eric Metaxas
Most people react this way when I tell them about the Nazis. Would it be more or less comforting if we could attribute that particular part of our history to the supernatural?
~ Ben Aaronovitch
The myth of Aryan dominance, initially an attempt to trace the lost language of the Aryas, began as a set of undemonstrable racial assumptions, and ended in a colossal, perfectly unscientific lie: "I decide who is Jewish and who is Aryan," announced Goebbels. That is what the Nazis meant by natural selection.
~ Ben Macintyre
The De Havilland Mosquito—or Anopheles de Havillandus, as military wags liked to call it—had proved a lethal nuisance to the Nazis ever since it went into production in 1940. Indeed, its effect on the German High Command was positively malarial. Designed
~ Ben Macintyre
We have to be honest and state that Nazis were involved in all Austrian parties after the Second World War: in the Freedom Party, in the Socialist Party, and also in my party.
~ Sebastian Kurz
I have this dream where I get chased through a park by Nazis in the Second World War. They finally catch up to me in an apartment somewhere, but I don't know what happens next.
~ King Diamond
In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis' communication code. He mastered the complex German enciphering machine, helping to save the world, and his work laid the basis for modern computer science. Does it matter that Turing was gay?
~ Alan K. Simpson
Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.
~ Pat Buchanan
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
~ Sebastian Junger
When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the Soviets, we knew we wanted to create a democratic country characterized by rule of law and respect for human rights.
~ Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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.
~ Sebastian Haffner
Los nazis han atragantado a los alemanes con el acohol de la camaradería, cosa que ellos en parte deseaban, hasta el delirium tremens. Han convertido a todos los alemanes en camaradas y los han aficionado a esa droga desde la edad más temprana: en las Juventudes Hitlerianas, las SA, el ejército del Reich, en miles de campamentos y federaciones, extirpándoles algo irreemplazable, algo que no puede ser compensado con la felicidad propia de la camaradería.
~ 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
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
It was at this time that, invisibly and unnoticed, the Germans divided into those who later became Nazis and those who would remain non-Nazis.
~ Sebastian Haffner
Claro que tuvo que ocurrir algo más para que este mecanismo fuese perfecto: la traición cobarde de los dirigentes de todos los partidos y organizaciones en quienes confió el cincuenta y seis por ciento de los alemanes que votó en contra de los nazis el 5 de marzo de 1933.
~ Sebastian Haffner
Según la impresión general, los vencedores del día no fueron los nazis en absoluto, sino los de la derecha burguesa, que habían «pescado» a los nazis y habían ocupado todos los puestos clave del gobierno. Desde el punto de vista jurídico constitucional, aquel suceso fue mucho más normal y menos revolucionario que la mayoría de acontecimientos ocurridos el año anterior.
~ Sebastian Haffner
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true
~ John Fowles
The Holocaust The Nazis were extremely prejudiced against the Jewish people. Under Hitler's leadership, the Nazis killed millions of Jewish people, as well as members of many other ethnic and political minority groups. To escape prison and death, some Jewish families went into hiding. They hid in caves or barns or under the floorboards of a friend's house. They had to be very secretive and quiet, often for days at a time. The Diary
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Hydromedusa tectifera are, like post-war Nazis, native to Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.
~ Mary Roach
But we must remember Hitler was able to rise not from an abundance of Nazis, but rather because they were simply too few Democrats. – Female correspondent
~ Steve Berry
Shabby suits and no stockings, but they had survived, waited in hiding or miraculously escaped, for this new chance, the idea the Nazis hadn't managed to kill.
~ Joseph Kanon