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I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.

I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

I'm the baddest among the bad guys.

Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.