Angela Merkel Quotes

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

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.

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

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

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].

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

I couldn't trash [Adolf] Hitler enough. Poor bastards, they make all these contributions to the automotive industry, aeronautics, space - but you pick one wrong guy and it's all out the window. They're never gonna live that one down.

Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together.

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

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

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

We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.

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.

One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn't end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way we think, and it will affect the way our children see the world.

Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.

At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.

If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.

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.

Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts.

If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all.

Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.