Final Solution Quotes

Only one and half million Jews died in the Holocaust.

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.

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

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

The Nazi’s radical anti-Semitism was an attempt to guarantee the complicity of the broadest possible swath of the populace in Nazi crimes. With their hands dripping with blood, most Germans would likely see no real choice but to fight to the death against the allies.

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

Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible.

When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Germany will regard the Jewish question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the greater German living space... Europe will have its Jewish question solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent.

The Nazis quite clearly killed millions of Jews.

I want to remind people that the Nazis weren't able to take the Jews to the crematoriums immediately. The German people wouldn't have allowed for it. Instead, the Nazis had to change public opinion. They marginalized the Jewish people, disparaged them, and made them objects of contempt.

Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.'

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

Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.

The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.

The killing of the Jews made the war monstrous.

Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

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