Quotes About Atrocity

Sono morto! Per Ercole, se non l'accoppo, quella, nella maniera più atroce

To call the situation a disgrace was to describe gang rape as a mild social deviation.

The Allied Forces, on their way across France during 1944 and 1945, had consumed scarce food, vandalized, looted and raped, and their destructiveness and rapaciousness was everywhere compared to that of the German soldiers. (Moorehead, 2011, 306)

All the ghettoes were being wiped out. The Germans were killing all the Jews." "But why? Why?" Helena asked. "They don't need reasons," I said. "Any excuse works for them, because they have the guns and we don't.

To forgive or forget the crimes of Josef Mengele would require the amputation of our conscience and the dismemberment of our memory.

As a physician, I know that human life begins with fertilization, and I remain committed to ending abortion in all stages of pregnancy. I will continue to fight this atrocity on behalf of the unborn, and I hope my colleagues will support me in doing so.

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai

War is organized murder and nothing else

Quand ces enfant sont arrivés à Auschwitz, on n'opéra pas de 'selection'. On ne les mit pas en rang avec les hommes et les femmes. On ne regarda pas qui était en bonne santé, qui était malade, qui pouvait travailler, qui ne le pouvait pas. On les envoya directement dans les chambres à gaze.

The horror of the Hitler Experience was not that he perpetrated it on the human race, but that the human race allowed him to.

Užas iskustva sa Hitlerom nije u tome da je on to namerno u?inio ljudskoj rasi, nego u tome da muje to ljudska rasa omogu?ila i dopustila. Za?u?uju?e je ne samo to da se pojavio jedan Hitler, nego to što su milioni pošli s njim. Sramotno je ne samo to što je Hitler pobio milione Jevreja, nego i to što su milioni Jevreja poginuli prije nego što je Hitler zaustavljen

Another Russian unit ordered the Jews of a shtetl near Wolkowisk to strip naked, dance with one another, and then ride on pigs; they then proceeded to shoot every tenth person.

Heinous Fuckery, most foul!

Oh, that's heinous fuckery most foul," said Kona.

Like much else, killing was something one could get used to.

The murder program accelerated in the spring of 1943. German troops entered the Warsaw ghetto and killed thousands of Jews in street fighting. In the south, the Nazis began deporting Greek Jews from Salonika to Auschwitz. In the north, they deported Dutch Jews to Sobibor, gassing about 34,000 people there as they arrived. The SS also arranged a special transport for 3,000 Jewish mothers and children from the Netherlands; they murdered all of them.11

German industry's unprecedented exploitation of slave labor became a crucial element of the Holocaust.

The Nazis organized the extirpation of between 700,000 and one million Jews and Poles between September 1939 and the summer of 19424—a casualty rate approaching that which the Turks had achieved in a comparable time using nearly identical methods.

You understand how it is worked—they send their bullies into the country to provoke disturbances, and when the police put them down, that's an atrocity.

the SS are Ã¢â'¬Â¦ brutes. The Allied victories in Africa are hitting us hard. And this final solution for the Jews Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is an evil impossible to comprehend. I…" He

Kate Webster had ensured her place in the murderers' hall of fame by attacking her mistress with the axe, hacking the corpse to pieces, and boiling down the remains in the copper, removing the bones. Most grisly of all was the fate of the fat. Webster had scooped the fat from the copper and sold it around the neighbourhood as dripping. One street urchin even claimed Webster had offered him a bowl