Jonah Hill
Actor, Producer, Director
"Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live."
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Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain."
Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?"
Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!"
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"We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany."
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"There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them."
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"We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany."
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"Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want."
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"I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years."
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"The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face."
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"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
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"Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization."
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"In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves."
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"Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered."
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"What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more."
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"In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there."
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"We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future."
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"I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all."
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"I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more."
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"By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism."
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"Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend."
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"In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum."
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"With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat."
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"After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany."
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