Rob Walton Quotes

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.

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

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.

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 memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

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.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

The Nazi Party should be banned and its leaders tried and imprisoned. Should the jails prove already full, the Nazis could be temporarily housed in their own … concentration camps…. Rid the bureaucracy of all authoritarian influences.

The Nazi gas chambers are but a detail of history

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.

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.

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.

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

There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

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.

… bootlickers of Hitler

Had he been victorious, Hitler himself could hardly have demanded more.

I did not more than my patriotic duty in trying to oppose the criminal madness of Hitler.

I was allowed for many years of my life to work for the greatest son [Adolf Hitler] that my people produced in their 1,000 year history. I regret nothing.