Ernst Zundel Quotes

The Nazi gas chambers are but a detail of history

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

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.

Marched into Russia. Killed the Jews. Strangled the women. Murdered the children. Everyone knows what we bring.

Without the railways, the Holocaust wouldn't have happened. I don't actually think the second world war would have happened without them.

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.

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

This war would be only a partial success if the whole lot of Jewry survived it, while we shed our best blood to save Europe. My attitude toward the Jews will therefore be based solely on the expectation that they must disappear. They must be done away with. Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourself of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible.

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

The Nazi’s radical anti-Semitism was an attempt to guarantee the complicity of the broadest possible swath of the populace in Nazi crimes. With their hands dripping with blood, most Germans would likely see no real choice but to fight to the death against the allies.

They are shooting Jews in masses. These crimes must not be allowed to continue..

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

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.

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'

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

I was not a member of the SS.

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

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.

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

Murder has been done in Buchenwald.

Pearl Harbor was not as cruel as the atomic bombing. The atom bomb wiped out everything: people in church, children in kindergarten, even their dogs and cats. Pearl Harbor was terrible, but not as bad as that…. I think that the atomic bombings rank with the Holocaust as the greatest crimes against humanity in this century...

I have left too many white crosses across north Africa, Italy, and France, and I’ve seen too many young men wounded and maimed not to be in complete sympathy with any policy that designs to eradicate, root and branch, the evil force, Nazism, that loose this holocaust on the world.