Gas Chambers Quotes:

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

- Golda Meir

source: 1967 Speech in NewYork,11 Jun.

topic: Lasts, Gas, Jew, Gas Chambers

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

- David Irving

source: "Historian David Irving Gets Three Years in Holocaust Denial Case", www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2006.

topic: Mistake, Made, Said, Gas Chambers, I Made A Mistake

During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took their victims to the incinerators, those who possess and threaten to use nuclear weapons plan to take these weapons - these portable incinerators - to the victims.

- David Krieger

topic: War, Nuclear, Use, Gas Chambers

There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.

- Jimi Hendrix

topic: Smoking, Gas, Chamber, Gas Chambers, No Smoking

The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a gigantic financial-political fraud, the principal beneficiaries of which are the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose principal victims are the German people - but not their leaders - and the entire Palestinian people.

- Robert Faurisson

topic: Lying, Israel, People, Zionism, Gas Chambers

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.

- Gene Simmons

topic: Mother, Book, Yesterday, Chamber, Gas Chambers

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War. ... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.

- Jean-Marie Le Pen

source: "The Journal of Historical Review", 2002.

topic: War, Book, Two, Sacrilegious, Appearing

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

- Noam Chomsky

source: "Why pick deluded Chomsky for prize?" by Ted Lapkin, www.dailytelegraph.com.au. June 5, 2011.

topic: Holocaust, Denial, Existence, Anti Semitic, Gas Chambers

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

- Viktor E. Frankl

topic: Berlin, Lectures, Ministry, Gas Chambers, Treblinka

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.

- John P. Marquand

topic: Strong, Writing, Thinking, Gas Chambers

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

- Huey Newton

topic: People, Slavery, Moments, Democratic Rights, Gas Chambers

Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody - every time you turn around, 15,000 survivors meet here, 400 survivors convention there. I mean, did you ever notice? Nazis sure were inefficient, weren't they? Boy, boy, boy! ...You almost have no survivors that ever say they saw a gas chamber or saw the workings of a gas chamber...they'll say these preposterous stories that anybody can check out to be a lie, an absolute lie.

- David Duke

source: Interview with Evelyn Rich, March 1985.

topic: Lying, Mean, Boys, Gas Chambers

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

- Jean-Marie Le Pen

topic: Gas, Gas Chambers

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.

- Philip Yancey

topic: Baseball, Art, Father, Roman Emperor, Constantine

The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style.

- Jerry Brown

topic: Past, Style, Execution, Injection, Gas Chambers

If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.

- Jonah Goldberg

source: "Springtime For Slanderers" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. January 5, 2001.

topic: Stupid, Philosophy, Men, Individual Rights, Chamber

We cut the hair from women after they had been exterminated in the gas chambers. The hair was then sent to factories, when it was woven into special fittings for gaskets.

- Rudolf Hoss

source: "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

topic: Cutting, Hair, Special, Chamber, Gas Chambers

The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.

- Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Taken, Thinking, Sick, Very Clever, Gas Chambers

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

- Jean-Marie Le Pen

topic: War, Writing, Two, Deportation, Concentration Camp

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

- Lionel Blue

topic: People, Devil, Good Christian, Pious, Crude

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

topic: Germany, Able, Realizing, Chamber, Machetes

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

- Martin Heidegger

source: "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

topic: Country, Agriculture, Essence, Hydrogen Bomb, Famine

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

- Huey Newton

topic: Mean, Community, Patriotism, Chamber, Gas Chambers

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

- Viktor E. Frankl

topic: Prayer, Men, Our Generation, Gas Chambers, Search For Meaning

Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that they will help us later. But when you look at what we admire as the most generous manifestations of altruism, they are not based on kin selection or reciprocity. An extreme example might be Oskar Schindler risking his life to save more than a thousand Jews from the gas chambers. That's the opposite of saving his genes.

- Richard Dawkins

source: Source: inters.org

topic: Opposites, Dna, Expectations, Reciprocity, Schindler

If Europe thinks Jews will return to the days where we were forced to mark our products - you can forget it. De-legitimization of parts of Israel by Europe is the new anti-Semitism. The old anti-Semitism led to the destruction of our people in gas chambers. We will not allow the new anti-Semitism to hurt us,

- Ayelet Shaked

topic: Hurt, Thinking, Europe, Gas Chambers

She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil had a domestic side, and its very banality protected it from exposure.

- Thrity Umrigar

topic: War, Evil, Sides, Gas Chambers

Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.

- Leslie Ford

topic: Bystanders, Hands, Ideas, Gas Chambers, Crime Fiction

Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.

- David Irving

source: " David Irving jailed for Holocaust denial", www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2006.

topic: Holocaust, Experts, Figures, Gas Chambers

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

- Henry A. Kissinger

source: "In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. December 10, 2010.

topic: Unions, Emigration, Humanitarian, Inhumane, Inhuman

So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Hate, Lying, Men, Political Change, Gas Chambers

My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories of faith, hope, triumph, and love. They are stories of perseverance, loyalty, courage in the face of overwhelming odds, and of never giving up!

- Livia Bitton-Jackson

source: Livia Bitton-Jackson (2011). “I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

topic: Loyalty, Perseverance, Giving Up, Overwhelming Odds, Gas Chambers

Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.

- Tadeusz Borowski

topic: Rain, Men, Names, Power Of One, Gas Chambers

One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over the rough ground, whispered: 'How can you bring yourself to kill such beautiful, darling children? Have you no heart at all?' One old man, as he passed me, hissed: 'Germany will pay a heavy penance for this mass murder of the Jews.' His eyes glowed with hatred as he said this. Nevertheless he walked calmly into the gas-chamber.

- Rudolf Hoss

source: "Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess". Book by Rudolf Höss, p. 150, 2000.

topic: Beautiful, Children, Heart, Pointing, Chamber

I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

- Ken Livingstone

topic: Gay, Years, Wings, Left Wing, Gas Chambers

The idea of watching an entire film basically from one person's perspective - and not even really from their perspective, but [it's] probably the most intimately shot film that's in any of these categories. If you're not familiar with Son of Saul, basically it's a film about a Jewish guy who's in concentration camp, but he helps dispose of the bodies after they leave the gas chamber. So, you watch the entire movie looking at Saul's face and looking at his interactions with people.

- Bun B

topic: Son, Ideas, Perspective, Gas Chambers

The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Source: www.nobelprize.org

topic: War, Believe, Gun, Phds, College Degree

During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a chance that it could save them, or others, from the eternal torments of hell. Thus, in the name of the religion of love, hundreds of thousands of people were not merely killed but atrociously tortured in ways that made the gas chambers of Beslen seem humane.

- Margaret E. Knight

topic: Names, People, Atheism, Heretic, Gas Chambers