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German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer.

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.

We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.

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.