#german

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

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#difficult #familiar #feel #german #i

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria. ↗

— Mario Batali

#austria #croatia #food #germany #great

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#german #germany #interesting #like #toured

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#germans #kant #quotations #shells #them

One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes. ↗

— Evan Davis

#everywhere #feel #germans #germany #go

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#echo #fear #finds #german #hearts

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#berlin #cologne #first #germany #i

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#down #german #go #hollywood #i

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#greatest #making #mind #mistakes #talent