1. The victims of the Clearances [were] subjects of intense hatred such as the gypsies and the Jews were to experience under the Nazis and other groups in the Western World.
F. G. Thomson, The Highlands and Islands (London, 1974), p. 61.
2. Like the shipping-off of the Polish and other Jews in cattle trucks.
David Craig, On the Crofter’s Trail (London, 1990), p. 72.
3. Sellar’s crimes against the people of Strathnaver, Grimble said, were to be ranked with those of Heydrich, the man who perpetrated unspeakable acts against the Jews in Prague in the Second World War.
Professor Eric Richards, discussing the views of Ian Grimble in Eric Richards, The Highland Clearances: People, Landlords and Rural Turmoil (Edinburgh, 2000), p. 10.
4. Sutherland’s managers kept records of their shipments of people with the obsessional thoroughness of an Eichmann.
David Craig, On the Crofter’s Trail (London, 1990), p. 129.
5. The policy of genocide could scarcely have been carried out further.
D. C. Thomson and Ian Grimble, eds., ‘Introduction’, The Future of the Highlands (London, 1968).
Paul Basu, Highland Homecomings (London, 2007), p. 197.