Dachau famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Civilization #Dachau #Foolish
I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.
-- Ed Royce

#Father #Army #Dachau
Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.
-- Eugen Kogon

#Names #Dachau #Territory
All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge,,then we become the gravediggers.
-- Rod Serling

#Men #Buchenwald #Dachau

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