Albert Speer Quotes

Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.

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 certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

Murder has been done in Buchenwald.

Genocide, massacre, and human slaughter; pillage, rape, and torture have been much more common than war and revolution. But historians do not dwell on such events. And even if they do, they very rarely attach numbers to them. They prefer the glamour of war, of diplomacy, of the clash of nations and personalities.

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

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.

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

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

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.

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Very well, then. Having been asked by you, Your Honour, to give a clear answer here, I must state that I consider this murder, this extermination of the Jews, to be one of the most heinous crimes in the history of mankind

[The Khmer Rouge are] the worst violators of human rights in the world.

Genocide

Please report to RF SS and to the Fuehrer that all arrangements against Jews, political and concentration camp internees in the Protectorate have been taken care of by me personally today.

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

The German policy – and policy it was – of seizing large numbers of hostages and murdering them wholesale in response to resistance largely or wholly imagined, was unmatched in scale in Western Europe.

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.