“ I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children. Gunter Grass Novelist
“ At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all. Ernst Toller Playwright
“ Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation. Friedrich Ebert German Politician
“ It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends. James Laughlin Poet
“ Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about. John Badham Film Director