Don’t forget that the great conquerors of history are not seen as murderers – Genghis Khan, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great – Don’t worry, the time will come when the world will think differently about all this.
Hermann Goering, in G. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary
The essence of war is violence; moderation in war is an imbecility.
Lord Macaulay, 1831
I have helped people from Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Germany, whenever I could, whether they were poor or whether they wanted to emigrate . . . and I never expected or received any compensation for it . . . because I did this for religious reasons.
Albert Goering, 25 September 1945
death is a master from Germany/his eyes are blue he strikes you with leaden bullets/his aim is true.
Paul Celan, Death Fugue