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"I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray."
"They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust."
"Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them."
"Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated."
"Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?"
"Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German."
"Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon."
"I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust."
"Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it."
"I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all."
"It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims"
"The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge."
"The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity."
"The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough."
"I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true."
"Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people."
"Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many wars of religion that were fought, the cruelty of Christians in burning what they believed to be witches and burning heretics, and then very recently they were responsible for the Holocaust... it was Christians."
"The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history"
"The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair."
"I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust."
