“In less than a hundred years the Germans organised themselves into six very different systems: the Hohenzollern Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the German Democratic Republic (aka communist East Germany), the Federal Republic of Germany (aka West Germany), and finally democratic reunited Germany. Of course the Germans kept their language and their love of beer and bratwurst. But is there some unique German essence that distinguishes them from all other nations, and that has remained unchanged from Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel?”

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

&quot;The Order #55 of the National Commissar for the Defense&quot; (23 February 1942) http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420223a.html Stalin said this when the enemy had reached the gate of Moscow during World War II. He called on the people not to identify all Germans with the Nazis. <br class="br">Stalin&#x27;s speeches, writings and authorised interviews

speech &quot;The catch-up process of the East has gone to end in 1996 - What to do?&quot; at the 10. May 2004 for the &quot;Erfurt Dialogues&quot;, thueringen.de http://www.thueringen.de/de/tsk/veranstaltungen/dialog/archiv/schmidt/

Speech in Berlin, April 7, 1938. Quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - by Eugene Davidson - History - 1997

Source: Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left', (2019), p. 333

Holidays in Hell (1989)

&quot;Address in Berkeley at the University of California (109)&quot; (23 March 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx&lt;!-- Public Papers of the President: John F. Kennedy, 1962 --&gt; <br class="br">1963, Address at the Free University of Berlin <br class="br">Variant: And Prince Bismarck was even more specific. One third, he said, of the students of German universities broke down from overwork, another third broked down from dissipation, and the other third ruled Germany.

To Leon Goldensohn (28 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)

Source: 7 March 1942, quoted in Hitler's Table Talk, 1941–1944