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That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.
— Israel Shahak
Poles did not like Jews and they were worse than Germans.
— Menachem Begin
Britain was formerly the America of the Germans.
— Benjamin Franklin
1945 nearly eight million Germans had been killed or were missing,
— Neil MacGregor
Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.
— Hasso Plattner
It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.
— Mark Oliphant
If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.
— Stanley Ralph Ross
Bombing of urban areas was not considered a war crime at Nuremberg; reason is, the West did more of it than the Germans.
— Noam Chomsky
Open duh computer." Germans ought to farm out all positions of petty authority. The accent remained too full of implication.
— Jonathan Lethem
If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.
— Stephen Colbert
The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German.
— Daniel Silva
I found Americans arrogant, Germans rude, Britishers selfish, Frenchs desperate, Chinese worried and my own nation stupid.
— M.F. Moonzajer
up yonder in the guzzling Germans' land,
— Dante Alighieri
With Germans, as with women, you never get to the point.
— Umberto Eco
The Germans, a race eager for war.
— Seneca The Younger
Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?
— Niall Ferguson
We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans
— Adolf Hitler
My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one.
— Bette Greene
Germans make nice cars.
— Jason Behr
The way Germans work is that they are slow to warm up but when they do they are your friend for life and very loyal.
— Claudia Schiffer
A Czech could either work for the Germans, or work for the Germans.
— Mariusz Szczygiel
I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
— Benito Mussolini
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
— Karl Kraus
I've got one thing to say: I killed a lot of germans, and I'm only sorry I didn't kill more.
— Nancy Wake
The Germans, if one may risk a generalization, have a weakness for blaming foreigners for their failures.
— William L. Shirer
German Emancipation Edict of 1822 guaranteed Jews in Germany all civil rights enjoyed by Germans.
— Anonymous
in 1944 the Germans executed brutal, slaughtering attacks on the people of mountain Crete.
— Adam Nicolson
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
— Gertrude Stein
Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
— Anton Rubinstein
school wouldn't help them fight the Germans.
— Lauren Wolk
Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.
— Tupac Shakur
Apparently the Germans had a database of 13,000 kicks.
— Simon Kuper
(The Germans invented gunpowder - all credit to them! but they again made things square - they invented printing.)
— Friedrich Nietzsche
...They were nothing but numbers to the people who had started this war.
— Ellen Marie Wiseman
The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.
— Ciro Guerra
I could tell you more about reading and how it perked up our spirits while the Germans were here.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.
— Peter Eisenman
Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.
— Winston Churchill
Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!
— Drew Carey
The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
— Siegfried Sassoon
If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick - dead!
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Germans must fight Jews, that organized body of world criminals against whom Christ, the greatest anti-Semite of all time, had fought.
— Julius Streicher
What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Would you like to hear of my first sight of the Germans? I'll use adjectives to make it more lively. I usually don't.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
Marvelous, isn't it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they're fucking dead.
— Ken Follett
One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else
— Will Rogers
Holy Jesus God, it's the Gerps shootin' us up! the manager shouted. He hadn't known whether to say Germans or Japs, and came out with both at once.
— Harry Turtledove
As a rule, Germans shouldn't do comedy. Their last box office comedy was Nosferatu.
— Stephen Colbert
There was a difference between a German and a Nazi," Mr. Newman stated. "The Kriegsmarine had a lot of Germans ... not so many Nazis.
— Andy Andrews
Avoiding Germans, they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound. They ate snow.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
— Friedrich Ebert
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[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
— Madame De Stael
Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.
— Michael O'Leary
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
— J.G. Ballard
In 1989, roughly one in fifty East Germans between the ages of eighteen and eighty worked for the Stasi in some capacity.
— Julia Angwin
The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education.
— Joan Juliet Buck
It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.
— Angela Merkel
All upright Germans will be National Socialists, but only the best National Socialists will be party members!
— Adolf Hitler
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.
— Pierre Laval
Germans found "American" (by which they often meant Irish) bars and their drinking customs both peculiar and unhealthy.
— Donna R. Gabaccia
Just like at Hirojima, when Pearl Harbor bombed the Germans!
— Scott Steiner
The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.
— Ernst Toller
The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
— Markus Zusak
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
— Franz Grillparzer
The Swiss are the only nation to make the Germans appear inefficient, the French undiplomatic and the Texans poor.
— Paul Bilton
I don't blame Germans," Emil said. "I don't even blame Nazis. I blame people who want to live at the expense of others.
— Steve Anderson
Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.
— John Prescott
I wish Americans were as simple and natural as Germans, don't you? I'm
— Louisa May Alcott
I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.
— Adolf Eichmann
Few Germans were imaginative enough to be irresponsible, but
— Ford Madox Ford
The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September.
— Pietro Badoglio
Their hatred of the Germans was quieter and more deadly than I have ever seen before.
— David M. Crook
One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.
— Gunter Grass
I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.
— Frederic Chopin
Not even the Germans could ruin the sea.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
Believing themselves superior in soul, in strength, in energy, industry, and national virtue, Germans felt they deserved the dominion of Europe.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.
— Frank Carson
The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
— Charles De Gaulle
That one way or another the Germans were tracking them from the
— Kate Atkinson
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
— Walter Ulbricht
God, I hate the Germans ...
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
