Albert Speer Quotes

It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.

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

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

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

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for a short day, everyone will see what happened to those poor devils in those camps; tomorrow, very few will care what happens to them in the future.

When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same.

...instantly introduce mass terror, shoot and transport hundreds of prostitutes who get the soldiers drunk, ex-officers, etc. Not a minute to be wasted...You must act at full stretch: mass searches. Executions for possession of weapons. Mass deportations of Mensheviks and unreliable elements.

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

The Russians we captured at Tannenberg should be herded into the Courland Peninsula on the Baltic and starved to death.

There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open?

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.

In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.

Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?