Quotes and Sayings About Germany
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If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss
-- Adolf Hitler -
Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany
-- Adolf Hitler -
Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those far beyond our frontiers, will then in this year for the first time really rejoice at the Christmas festival. It should for us all be a true Festival of Peace.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.
-- Al Walser -
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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
-- Albert Camus -
Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
-- Albert Einstein -
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.
-- Alfred RosenbergSource : "World Politics in Our Time". Book by David C. Jordan, p. 375, 1970.
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Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.
-- Alfred RosenbergSource : "Famous Trials: Cases that Made History". Book by Frank McLynn, p. 104, 1995.
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We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
One thing about Germany - they'll be organised, they'll be big and they'll be strong.
-- Ally McCoist -
My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me.
-- Andrew Dickson WhiteSource : ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”
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In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
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It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
-- Angela Merkel -
At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
-- Angela Merkel -
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.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.
-- Antonio Munoz Molina -
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The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.
-- Arthur Keith -
The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.
-- Arthur Seyss-InquartSource : Speech in Berlin on April 07, 1938. "Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, 1966.
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I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.
-- Austen ChamberlainSource : "The Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain: Vol. II" by Sir Charles Petrie, Cassell, (p. 263), 1940.
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He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.
-- Baldur von Schirach -
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America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.
-- Bernhard Langer -
I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
-- Boris Kodjoe -
For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.
-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali -
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After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.
-- Brian Mulroney