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Hermann Goring2 quotes
Submit to me as soon as possible a draft showing... Measures already taken for the execution of the intended final solution of the Jewish question. — Hermann Goring · 1941I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... A total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence. — Hermann Goring · 1941Robert H. Jackson2 quotes
If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime. — Robert H. Jackson · 1946The first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. — Robert H. Jackson · 1945Aharon Appelfeld1 quote
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it has also become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. — Aharon Appelfeld · 1986Alan Bold1 quote
This happened near the core
Of a world's culture. This
Occurred among higher things.
This was a philosophical conclusion.
Everybody gets what he deserves. — Alan Bold · 1969Andre Malraux1 quote
The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man. — Andre Malraux · 1967Edward R. Murrow1 quote
I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words. — Edward R. Murrow · 1945Elie Wiesel1 quote
God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here. — Elie Wiesel · 1995Golda Meir1 quote
Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves. — Golda Meir · 1967Hannah Arendt1 quote
It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil. — Hannah Arendt · 1963Primo Levi1 quote
Up to the moment of this writing... The Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place or time has one seen a phenomenon so unexpected and so complex: never have so many human lives been extinguished in so short a time, and with so lucid a combination of technological ingenuity, fanaticism, and cruelty. — Primo Levi · 1986Theodor Adorno1 quote
To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. — Theodor Adorno · 1951