Oliver Stone Quotes
In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.
Stone, Oliver. Public Apology Statement. 26 July 2010. Quoted in "Oliver Stone Apologizes for Holocaust Remarks." The New York Times, 27 July 2010.
The general was replacing George S. Patton as commander of the Third Army. Patton had opposed the deNazification policy of the allies and caused a great deal of public relations difficulty for the army command and the administration, as reporters would frequently print his views. Truscott was one of Patton’s loyal assistants. The minute he took over, the press wanted to find out if his views were the same as his former boss regarding the Nazis. They were quite different. Reporters had no story.
There will never be another Holocaust in the history of the Jewish people. Never again, never again!
Prime Minister Lloyd Geroge actually had used the phrase over half a century earlier. See {603047} The Jewish Defense League used Begin’s phrase as a motto: {605148}
See Talaat Bey {40621} for a similar twisted logic.
Zangwill had been asked to be part of a team to assesses the accusations of pogroms against Jews in the Ukraine.
Despite Gross and the Nazi perpetrated holocaust, Jews not only are returning to Europe but have reached many of the highest achievements. (For example, French President Sarkozy was a Jew) Nazi’s however are almost extinct in Europe, and Germany has been one of the major leaders outlawing Nazi’s and their ideas.
William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express (1978), and wrote the gangster movie remake Scarface (1983). Stone achieved prominence as writer and director of the war drama Platoon (1986), which won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier. He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July (1989)—for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and Heaven & Earth (1993). Stone's other works include the Salvadoran Civil War-based drama Salvador (1986); the financial drama Wall Street (1987) and its sequel Money Never Sleeps (2010); the Jim Morrison biographical film The Doors (1991); the satirical black comedy crime film Natural Born Killers (1994); a trilogy of films based on the American Presidency: JFK (1991), Nixon (1995), and W. (2008); and Snowden (2016).