Rod Serling Quotes

Murder has been done in Buchenwald.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious.

I didn't realise the depth of horror that happened in the Second World War every day.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

As Minister of Economics, Funk accelerated the pace of rearmament and as Reichsbank president banked for the SS the gold teeth fillings of concentration camp victims, probably the most ghoulish collateral in banking history.

In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.

The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.

The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs.

During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in different neighborhoods. "This person here was prosecuted." "This person was sent to this concentration camp." "A family of Jews lived here. They took over his business." Little, very discrete, very dignified plaques are everywhere.

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed. That was horrifying beyond words, and that's where science - in my opinion, this is just an opinion - that's where science leads you.

Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.

Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.