Angela Merkel Quotes

For the first time in the history of relations between people, a precedent has been created by which a great State [Germany], as a result of moral pressure alone, takes it upon itself to pay compensation to the victims [the Jews] of the government that preceded it [Nazi Germany].

In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country's strenuous efforts to face its past and make amends.

Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.

I can say that we are very clear in our mind about the responsibility of the national soldiers for the break with civilisation that was the Shoah. We are firmly convinced that this is something that will have to be handed over to generations to come... so we don't see any reason to change our view of history.

Germany remains among the few countries in Europe to acknowledge, officially and nationally, its responsibility for the crimes it led against our people.

There are Jews who were born in Poland before World War II and survived the Holocaust, who think Poland and the Poles deserve an apology.

Germany's historical responsibility will not expire. We want to live up to it - and you should judge us on it.

He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.

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 Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

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

Murder has been done in Buchenwald.

If an atrocity has been committed in Germany and Europe why should the Palestinians be made to suffer?

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

We licked the race haters in Europe, but the millions of Jewish dead cannot be restored to life

I did not feel justified in exterminating the Jewish men and leaving the women and children alive to avenge them.

Mistreatment of Jews in Germany may be considered virtually eliminated.

The killing of the Jews made the war monstrous.

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews.

No one will ever understand Auschwitz.

I now believe I know how it felt to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.

The human rights violations of North Korea are reminiscent of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust… There will be no excuse of the International Community saying it did not know.