Angela Merkel Quotes

A thousand years will pass and still this guilt of Germany will not have been erased.

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.

The question is not what the Germans did to the Jews, but what the Jews did to the Germans.

For the first time in the history of relations between people, a precedent has been created by which a great State [Germany], as a result of moral pressure alone, takes it upon itself to pay compensation to the victims [the Jews] of the government that preceded it [Nazi Germany].

Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

Germany remains among the few countries in Europe to acknowledge, officially and nationally, its responsibility for the crimes it led against our people.

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

We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not that bad times await them, not that the war may end in defeat, but that what is happening is sin and that they are personally responsible for each terrible deed that has been committed - naturally, not in the earthly sense, but as Christians.

The Nazi gas chambers are but a detail of history

We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.

We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.

As a Jew, there's a need to keep that atrocity alive. There were Catholics and gypsies and homosexuals who died in the Holocaust, too. It's amazing that people allowed this slaughter to take place. There's a need to make these films and reiterate it happened.

The truth about the Holocaust must not die.

Only one and half million Jews died in the Holocaust.

We Austrians know that in light of our own history, we have a special responsibility toward Israel and the Jewish people.

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.

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.

Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.