Robert Jay Lifton Quotes

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.

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

I was not a member of the SS.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny 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.

I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is nonsense. But that was Hitler's idea, and...was pure fantasy.

The Nazi gas chambers are but a detail of history

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.

The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.

The only way you can handle big kinds of questions is to simply state briefly what the truth was. What am I going to tell you about the Holocaust? Would you like three pages about it? I don't think you would... I don't think anything different than you think - it was horrible.

My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.

The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

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.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

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.