Famous quotes from the Holocaust
2007-05-02 11:38:43 · 5 answers · asked by Arvind 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
"Arbeit macht Frei" ("work brings freedom"), placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps.
"I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to ... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.... I furthermore charge you to submit to me as soon as possible a draft showing the ... measures already taken for the execution of the intended final solution of the Jewish question."
Hermann Goering, Military directive, July 31, 1941. Quoted in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", ch. 27, William L. Shirer (1960).
"Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed." - Anne Frank
"Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example."
Anne Frank, "Diary of a Young Girl" (1947), entry dated April 11, 1944.
"God must have been on leave during the Holocaust."
Simon Wiesenthal
2007-05-02 11:52:36 · answer #1 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's amazing that so many people hold Hitler personally responsible for all the atrocities of German Nazis as well as other nations who enthusiastically participated in the atrocities. However, Hitler did not personally exterminate 12 million "undesirables." Choice, or "free will", is a major concept in both Judaism and Christianity. The German people "chose" Hitler in a democratic election. The German people "chose" to persecute their neighbors and to participate in the ransacking of vacated homes and businesses. The German (Polish, Dutch, etc.) people "chose" to either stand by and watch the suffering of their neighbors or they "chose" to enthusiastically participate in the atrocities. As we often hear from Christians -- we are born with "free will." We must "choose" between good and evil behavior. The European peoples' choices still resonate today! .
2016-05-19 01:24:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Not all victims were Jews, but all Jews were victims" -Auschwitz tour guide
"Arbeit Macht Frei"-Work will set you free. On the gate before you enter Auschwitz
... in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again. -Anne Frank
2007-05-02 11:53:26 · answer #3 · answered by Muppet 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
There are no quotes from holocaust victims. The Nazis supposedly kept it quiet. Then people like Eli Wiesel came out and said they were a victim, however we may never know if he was lying or not.
2007-05-02 11:46:13 · answer #4 · answered by Flash 3 · 0⤊ 10⤋
"heil hittler" - nazis
2007-05-02 11:42:43 · answer #5 · answered by nate s. 2 · 1⤊ 8⤋