Gerhard Weinberg Quotes (7 Quotes)

We live in a world where there is enormous potential for evil.

During this period, I had been doing studies that hinted at the presence of another book written by Hitler. Since I was currently researching German foreign policy, you can understand that I was very excited.

I wasn't very happy with the existing literature. They tended to look at the Earth as a cube. When people read books on the war, it's always like looking through a pipe at one theater or battle. They fail to engage the interrelationship between events.

It's very, very important for people to get a sense of what the potentialities of people really are, what the dangers of ignorance can be. It is in this context, that a supposedly advanced society risks descending into the sewer, that the Holocaust is a warning to people who think of themselves as an advanced, modern society.

I discovered, as a child, that spending time in Nazi-Germany as a Jew was not recreational. I also found that getting beat up in German schools was not pleasant.

The most important failing is that they divorce the study of the Holocaust from the war,

People don't have to read all of it at one time that's not required. I've told people that they can keep it in the trunks of their cars in case they're driving on icy roads so they won't skid.