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The Holocaust13 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 · 1941It 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 · 1963The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man. — Andre Malraux · 1967To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. — Theodor Adorno · 1951Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves. — Golda Meir · 1967I 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 · 1941All 13 quotes →Accountability1 quote
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 · 1946Auschwitz1 quote
To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. — Theodor Adorno · 1951Criminal law1 quote
The 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 · 1945Evil1 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 · 1963Forgiveness1 quote
God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here. — Elie Wiesel · 1995Limits of language1 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 · 1945Nature of evil1 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 · 1963Poetry1 quote
To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. — Theodor Adorno · 1951The Jewish people1 quote
Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves. — Golda Meir · 1967World War II1 quote
I 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 · 1941