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Quotes About German

ch like the Scots loch, a sound the English affect to be unable to pronounce although many manage the name of the German composer, J. S. Bach, well enough.
~ Alistair Moffat
The parade, the participation of children, the public mockery, the photographs - all of these were essential elements of prewar anti-Jewish actions. The public humiliation of Jews in German localities followed a script from 1933 through the deportations in 1941-1943. Germans knew this script and followed it as they deported the Jews.
~ Alon Confino
The Nazis thus offered a modern salvation worldview that defined evil lucidly and consistently: significantly, it did this by blending science, morality, and identity, that is, by mixing modern race theories, moral religious sentiments associated with a tradition of Christianity, and key elements of Heimat and German national identity.
~ Alon Confino
If we have political forces in the Bundestag, and in parts of the coalition, who... say they want to spend money on pensions, not weapons. Then I say, be honest and say you don't want a German army.
~ Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
~ Hans Frank
My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.
~ Donald Tusk
I cooked for the two Popes that were here. Pope Francis I cooked for and Pope Benedict before him. Pope Benedict is German. And I did a little research - his mother was a chef.
~ Lidia Bastianich
The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.
~ Galeazzo Ciano
The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.
~ Alexis Carrel
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
~ Clifton Fadiman
I appreciate that Bayern always wants to have the best German talents.
~ Leroy Sane
I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan.
~ Lydia Millet
Bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, who I respect, have a very robotic, dehumanised approach. They're almost an apology for machines. It's very German.
~ Jean-Michel Jarre
In this historic hour, we German Social Democrats solemnly profess our allegiance to the basic principles of humanity and justice, freedom and socialism. No Enabling Law gives you the right to annihilate ideas that are eternal
~ Richard J. Evans
Himmler's pimply teenage daughter was incredulous when reading about her father's career, which was now being serialized in newly appearing German-language papers. When I tried to interview her, she ran crying from the room. I was surprised that Himmler's daughter had feelings!
~ Richard W. Sonnenfeldt
When the Nazis came to power it was estimated that ninety-four percent of the German population claimed that they were Christians and that over eighty percent attended church on a regular basis.  The appearance of being a Christian nation though was only superficial.
~ Richard Wilson
G.W.F. Hegel . He's perfect, Weishaupt wrote.... Unlike Kant , who makes sense only in German, this man doesn't make sense in any language.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Well, fetch it, man!" said Mr. Andersen, angry for the first time all day. "Or would you like to announce to every German outside that we're now running a hotel for weary Jews?
~ Robert Elmer
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
~ Kingsley Amis
Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
~ Otto von Bismarck
To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.
~ Baldur von Schirach
Przenikliwa i przewiduj?ca polityka Niemców dosz?a do wniosku, ?e Ukraina, chocia? ?yzna i bogata, o tyle tylko mo?e sta? si? dla nich z?otono?na kur?, o ile przywrócona b?dzie na niej wi?ksza w?asno?? ziemska.
~ Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
Czechoslovak government and the pro-Nazi leaders of the country's Sudeten German minority, Hitler demanded that the German population be given "self-determination," that is, autonomy within the Czechoslovak republic. The British and French governments feared that these demands, following close on the German annexation of Austria, would be a first step in Hitler's eventual dismembering of Czechoslovakia and its absorption into a greater Reich.
~ Debi Unger
En wat is dit dié? Duitse owner van 'n boereplaas met 'n Franse naam waar 'n Brit gekidnap is. Fucking United Nations of Crime, dis wat ons nou word.
~ Deon Meyer