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What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so the ethnic cleansing of Germans was a precondition for the Stalinization of Poland. I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. They would always feel the guilty need for an ally against potential German revenge. ↗


— Christopher Hitchens


#eastern-european #ernest-gellner #ethnic-cleansing #genocide #germans

If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic. ↗


— Nicholas D. Kristof


#african #bush #cancer #central #chad

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations. ↗


— Adam Schiff


#call #deliberate #genocide #let us #light

The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America. ↗


— Adam Schiff


#armenian #armenian genocide #fabric #genocide #into

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior. ↗


— Jack Schwartz


#attempt #behavior #exterminate #genocide #people

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide. ↗


— Bianca Jagger


#governments #international #international law #law #mandated

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters. ↗


— Iain Pears


#civilization #cowardice #denunciation #deportation #evil

[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are abandoned and towns deserted. The wrath of the Lord is upon us and He may be intending to destroy the whole of creation. People are without leaders and direction. They want to be given a reason for this, so they can be reassured, so they will return to their prayers and their obiediences. All this is going on, and you are concerned about the safety of two Jews? ↗


— Iain Pears


#civilization #decay #end-of-the-world #genocide #god-s-wrath

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime. ↗


— Philip Gourevitch


#family

It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility. ↗


— Rhonda Fink-Whitman


#genocide #germany #historical-fiction #holocaust #poland






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