That, … is why the neo-Nazis had to do anything they could to question its authenticity.

Should history repeat itself, my example will repeat itself too…and not once, but fifty-fold.

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

The National Socialist (Nazi) party had 10 million members, of whom at most 150,000 were criminals. It would be grotesque to stick the label of criminal on every former member of the party.

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it,

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

I have never stated that ‘there were no extermination camps on German soil.’ This quote is false, I could never have said such a thing.

I’m here to assure you that our city is prepared to handle these situations, … Power was restored to the vast majority of D.W.P. customers, 90 percent, within the first two hours.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to...

a man of action.

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day,

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive,

We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?

But I am not a hater.

(The ruling is) a victory of history over hate, … Today’s decision definitely places Irving where he belongs — not as a historian, but as a leading apologist for those who seek to whitewash the...

If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years,

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

rant and rave about the Jews.

Obviously,

Violence is like a weed – it does not die even in the greatest drought.

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

deeply hurt because Kreisky and I are leaves of the same tree.

[He maintained that his motivation was not anger but justice.] I am someone who seeks justice, not revenge, … My work is a warning to the murderers of tomorrow, that they will never rest.

I was over four years in different camps with people from 15 nations: Jews, Gentiles, Gypsies, communists. Through this experience, my view on the Holocaust and the whole problem of Nazism is a lot different...

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

to expose the plight of black slaves in Sudan and Mauritania, where today tens of thousands of black people still suffer the scourge of slavery.

We thought we were going mad, … Perhaps we feared (or hoped) we were mad already.

None of my “clients” – not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin – was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics,...

When we come to the other world,

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

Come, let us do honor to the man who has always honored us.

A BLACK MARK ON U.S. HISTORY

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody’s duty.

He did not want to be buried in Austria, as he was afraid his grave will be mutilated.

For me was the Holocaust not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I...

You drew such a positive profile of me from this sample that I can only say: I like it!

I didn’t forget you.

Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.

A MOCKERY TO EVERY VICTIM OF 7/7

There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today… they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.

When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, ‘What have you done?’ there will be many answers. You will say, ‘I...

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

I have received many honors in my lifetime, … When I die, these honors will die with me. But the Simon Wiesenthal Center will live on as my legacy.

which in no way wanted to distance the Torah observant Jews from the joint club.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

When history looks back,

The end was surely near, … The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.