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;void(0)) . . . Alfred Hitchcock (18991980) British-born film director. see "ACTORS" for related links see "PEOPLE" for related links The Donald Spoto biography of Hitchcock was absolute nonsense. Hitchcock couldn't have been a nicer fellow. I whistled coming to work on his films. --Cary Grant [Alexander Archibald Leach] (19041986) English actor. In "Variety" [6 December 1983]. - Janet Leigh, Hollywood's perfect "nice girl" ingenue who memorably changed her acting image and earned an Academy Award nomination with her bloodcurdling screams as she was stabbed to death in Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Psycho," has died. She was 77. [...] "Psycho," with its fatal shower scene that tantalized viewers' imaginations, was unquestionably the zenith of Leigh's prolific motion pictures. Leigh, offered the script by Hitchcock, was so convinced the role as embezzling office worker Marion Crane would establish her as a major dramatic actress that she agreed to work for one-quarter of her usual $100,000 fee. The gamble paid off. [. . . ] To shoot the scene, Leigh spent seven days in the shower on camera while Hitchcock amassed more than 70 takes of two and three seconds each. The work was easy, she said in her book, until the last 20 seconds, when her face had to reflect her realization that her bloody death was imminent. Once she saw the finished picture, Leigh often said, she abandoned showers for life. --By Myrna Oliver _Los Angeles Times_ [October 5, 2004] "Janet Leigh, 77; Memorable Shower Scene in 'Psycho' Established Her as a Major Star" - I once read a "where are they now" type article about a child actor who had been in one of Hitchcock's films. He told about one difficult shoot, where he kept fretting and wouldn't perform right. He recalled how Hitchcock came looming over him, all sweat and jowls and tight collar and weighing about a thousand pounds, and said, "Little boy, if you don't stop crying I will nail your foot to the floor, and blood will coming flowing out like milk!" --the Sanity Inspector, alt.quotations  . . Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. see "EVIL" for related links see "PEOPLE" for related links see: "WORLD WAR II" In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his [Hitler's] face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word. --Neville Chamberlain (18691940) British Conservative politician, Prime Minister [19371940]. After returning from the Munich Conference in 1938. A monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. . .this bloodthirsty guttersnipe. --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. Radio broadcast [26 June 1941]. - There are two ways of losing a war. One is to be defeated in the field. The other is to lose the war before it begins. We have indicated this peril for months past. It is now obvious. It has to be admitted. Why is so plain a peril plainly revealed in Hitler's book why, we ask, is it only now recognised by our rulers? Simply because, even if they have read Hitler (which is still doubtful) they have not believed what he has said in Mein Kampf. Not believing him, not knowing the sort of lucid lunatic with whom they have had to deal, they have believed it possible to disarm him by smiles, handshakes, pacts and scraps of paper. --William Connor [Cassandra] (19091967) British journalist. _The Daily Mirror_ [21 March 1939] - I do not consider Hitler as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing, and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. May 1940 remark. In Robert Payne _The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi_ [1969]. Many Germans, women in particular, used to descant to me upon the radiance of [Hitler's] expression and his remarkable eyes. I must confess he never gave me any impression of greatness. He was a spellbinder for his own people. To the last, I continued to ask myself how he had risen to what he was and how he maintained his ascendance over the German people. --Sir Nevile Henderson (18821942) British ambassador in Berlin [19371939]. (Declaring himself baffled by the appeal of the Fόhrer.) - The German people has the solemn intention of living in peace and friendship with all civilized nations and powers... And I regard the maintenance of peace in Europe as especially desirable .......The young Germany, that is led by me and that finds its expression in the National Socialist Movement, has only the most heartfelt desire for an understanding with other European nations. --Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. Letter to Hervι, published in the Nazi Vφlkischer Beobachter [26 October 1930]. Do you really think that I will allow myself to be photographed shaking hands with a negro? --Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. [Summer 1936.] (The Fuhrer was responding to a proposal by Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach that he be photographed with Jesse Owens, the black American sprinter and winner of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games.) In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 819. Hitler, on Christianity: The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.... When understanding of the universe has become widespread... Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.... Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity.... And that's why someday its structure will collapse.... ...the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little.... Christianity the liar.... We'll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State. --14th October, 1941, midday: [p 4952] The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity. --19th October, 1941, night. Originally, Christianity was merely an incarnation of Bolshevism, the destroyer.... The decisive falsification of Jesus' doctrine was the work of St.Paul. He gave himself to this work... for the purposes of personal exploitation.... Didn't the world see, carried on right into the Middle Ages, the same old system of martyrs, tortures, faggots? Of old, it was in the name of Christianity. Today, it's in the name of Bolshevism. Yesterday the instigator was Saul: the instigator today, Mardochai. Saul was changed into St.Paul, and Mardochai into Karl Marx. By exterminating this pest, we shall do humanity a service of which our soldiers can have no idea. --21st October, 1941, midday: [p 63-65] Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.... .... When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let's be the only people who are immunised against the disease. --13th December, 1941, midnight: [p 118 & 119]. There is something very unhealthy about Christianity. --9th April, 1942, dinner: [p 339] It would always be disagreeable for me to go down to posterity as a man who made concessions in this field. I realize that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch in the next 200 years will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity.... My regret will have been that I couldn't... behold. --27th February, 1942, midday: [p 278]. --_Hitler's Secret Conversations 19411944_ published by Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc. first edition, 1953, The book was published in Britain under the title, _Hitler's Table Talk 19411944_, which title was used for the Oxford University Press paperback edition in the United States. - ...a born leader ...I wish we had a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today. --David Lloyd George (18631945) Welsh-born British Prime Minister [19161922]. On Hitler, quoted in Lynne Olsen, _Troublesome Young Men_ [2007]. Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, thats all. --Henry Miller (18911980) American novelist and essayist. Letter, March 1939, to author Lawrence Durrell. Published in The Durrell-Miller Letters 19351980 [1988]. Written shortly after the Nazis had marched into Czechoslovakia. Rhapsodized Hearstian British Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere: "The most prominent figure in the world today is Adolf Hitler. His mastermind magnetizes the whole field of foreign politics. ... He eats no meat, and has followed Mussolini in giving up both alcohol and tobacco a practice to whose benefits I myself can testify. Hitler takes practically no exercise . . . . Music is, indeed, the only influence which can relax the Chancellor's stern self-control. . . . His love for children and for dogs. . . .Hitler is in the direct tradition of the great leaders of mankind who appear rarely more often than once in two or three centuries. He is the incarnation of the spirit of the German race. ... I am profoundly convinced that the better he is known to the mass of the British nation the higher its appreciation of him will be. . . . The future of this country, as the greatest world Power, is bound up with the actions of this man who is the uncontested ruler of the strongest Continental nation." --'North Sea Nexus', _Time_ (magazine) [24 June 1935] Good chap, that Hitler! He showed how to deal with political opponents. --Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18791953), Soviet Communist leader and head of the USSR from the death of V. I. Lenin (1924) until his own death. (On the 1934 "Night of the Long Knives") in Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky _KGB: The Inside Story_ [1990]. [I am] convinced of [Hitler's] sincerity in desiring peace in Europe. --Arnold Toynbee (18891975) English historian. (After an interview with Hitler in 1936.) In H.R. Trevor-Roper _Arnold Toynbee's Millennium_ "Encounter" [June 1957]. . . see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links ^ Herbert Hoover (18741964) American statesman; 31st President of the United States [19291933]. An autograph collector sent a request to President Hoover asking for three signatures; he explained he wanted one for himself and two to trade for one of Babe Ruth's since 'it takes two of yours to get one of Babe Ruth's.' Hoover, amused, obliged with three signatures. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (18031873) British novelist, playwright, and politician. _Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners_ [1863] Essay VII "On The Management of Money" A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _Epistles_, XXIII, 3, 4 It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. --Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. -- Deputy Todd pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing at the car, he was astounded to see that the woman at the wheel was knitting! Todd cranked down his window and yelled, PULL OVER! NO, the woman yelled back, ITS A SCARF! ----- avocation (noun) A secondary occupation, usually one pursued for recreation; hobby. Similar: pastime, diversion, sideline, interest philately n. [fi-LAT-uh-lee] Philately is another word for stamp collecting, and if you collect stamps, you are a philatelist [fi-LAT-uh-list]. Other phil- words include philosopher, a lover of knowledge (sophia), and philanthropist, one who loves to benefit humans (anthropos). . . see "TIME" for related links see "TRAVEL" for related links The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illustrations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore. --John Adams (17351826) First VP and second President of the United States. In his second letter to Abigail Adams [3 July 1776]. The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "Holidays" l. 1 I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up . . . they have no holidays. --Henny Youngman (19061998) English-born American stand-up comedian. - A Halloween trick-or-treater went to his neighbor's door dressed in boxing gloves and satin shorts. He was "Rocky." Soon after his neighbor gave him some goodies, he returned for more. "Aren't you the same 'Rocky' who left my doorstep several minutes ago?" asked the neighbor. "Yes," he replied, "but now I'm the sequel. I'll be back three more times tonight, too." ----- Chanukah (noun) ['hah-nκ-kκ] The Jewish Festival of Lights, an 8-day festival celebrating the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrians and the rededication of the second Temple of Jerusalem (164 BC). The distinctive rite of lighting the menorah (a seven- or nine-branched candelabra) also celebrates the Talmudic parable of how a one-day supply of oil miraculously burned in the Temple for eight full days. Also spelled "Hanukkah." - dreidel (noun) ['drey-dl] A dreidel is a four sided top with a Hebrew letter on each side. ... The dreidel is the center of one of the traditional games played by children after dinner as the candles of the 8-day Jewish Festival of the Lights (Chanukah) burn in the menorah. Each player puts a token-a piece of candy, a raisin, nut, or chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil (gelt), in the pot. Then the first player spins the dreidel. When the dreidel stops, the letter that is facing up determines the play: "nun" means nothing happens, neither win nor loss; "gimel" means the player takes all tokens in the pot; "hey" means the player takes half of the pot, and if "shin" turns up, the player must put one token into the pot. ... The game of dreidel was played throughout Europe in the Middle Ages under various names. [from yourdictionary.com] - ;void(0)) HOLLAND . . Photograph of Amsterdam taken by Sebastian Vogelslang and reprinted under creative commons copyright license. see "PLACES" for related links Holland . . . lies so low, they're only saved by being dammed. --Thomas Hood (17991845) English poet and humorist. _Up the Rhine_ [1840] "Letter from Martha Penny to Rebecca Page" Many of the Boers [the Dutch farmers living outside Cape Town] possess 200 or 300 oxen, 100, 150 or more cows, 2,000 to 3,000 sheep, 40 or 50 horses, 20, 30 or more bond slaves, and a large estate. Many an African Boer, therefore, would think twice about changing places with a German nobleman. --F. Mentzel _Life at the Cape in the mid-18th Century_ [1919] p. 129 But it was pretty news came the other day so fast, of the Dutch fleets being in so many places, that Sir W. Batten at table cried, 'By God!' says he, 'I think the Devil shits Dutchmen.' --Samuel Pepys (16331703) English diarist and naval administrator. [19 July 1667] In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 387. Cohan & Major explain: In the last few months of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, Dutch naval superiority in general and the notorious raid on Chatham in particular shocked the English, who had been led to expect an easy victory. The Dutch are the most expert Founders in the World, and furnish most Countries with Ordnance. The German, Spanish, Italian, African and Turkish Troops have their arms principally from Amsterdam; as also their Cannon, Mortars, Powder and Lead. What is more, during the last two general Wars, Louis XIV, who thought to carry every Art and Manufacture to its highest Perfection, and particularly all that appertained to the Art Military, was however obliged to the Gunsmiths and Founders of Amsterdam, the Metropolis of an Enemy, for Arms and Ammunition for his Troops. --anon. _A Description of Holland_ [1743], in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 385. . . see "ACTORS" for related links see "PLACES" for related links I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday. --Nelson Algren (19091981) American novelist. You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly, and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. --Fred Allen [John Florence Sullivan] (18941956) American humorist. Quoted in J.R. Colombo _Wit and Wisdom of the Moviemakers_ [1979]. When I departed Hollywood forever, in 1940, I thought that getting away from the place would automatically cure me of its pestiferous disease, playfully referred to there as 'going Hollywood.' I retired first to my father's home in Wichita, but there I found that the citizens could not decide whether they despised me for having once been a success away from home or for now being a failure in their midst. --Louise Brooks (19061985) American motion-picture actress. _Lulu in Hollywood_ [1982] - If my books had been worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come. --Raymond Chandler (18881959) American writer of detective fiction. In F. McShane, _The Life of Raymond Chandler_ [1976]. Hollywood is the kind of town where they stick a knife in your back and then arrest you for carrying a concealed weapon. --Raymond Chandler (18881959) American writer of detective fiction. In Jon Winokur's _War Between the State_ [2004], "Hollywood". - You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived, I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. --Lillian Gish (18961993) American stage and movie actress. Quoted in Abby Adams _An Uncommon Scold_ [1989]. Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. --Erica Jong (1942 ) American novelist. _How To Save Your Own Life_ [1977] With a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern- day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman. --Anita Loos (18931981) American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter. _No Mother to Guide Her_ [1961] Hollywood's queens and kings lived far more luxuriously than most of the reigning families in Europe. Most of them tossed their money around as though they manufactured it themselves in the cellar. They went in for solid gold bathtubs, chauffeur-driven Rolls Royces, champagne for breakfast and caviar every fifteen minutes. It was the kind of world that today only exists in the pages of movie magazines and for the sons of a few Latin American dictators. --Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (18951977) American film comedian. _Groucho and Me_ [1959] You bastard! You have disgraced the industry that made and fed you! You should be tarred and feathered and run out of Hollywood! --Louis B. Mayer (18851957) Russian born American movie producer and co-founder of MGM. To director Billy Wilder after a screening of "Sunset Boulevard," in David Thompson's _The Whole Equation_. Washington is Hollywood for ugly people. And considering the remarks about Iraq coming out of Hollywood, Hollywood is Washington for the simple-minded. --John McCain (1936 ) American politician and former U.S. Navy pilot who spent five years as a POW in the Hoa Lo "Hanoi Hilton" prison during the Vietnam War. Washington Press Club Foundation Dinner, National Press Club [5 Feb. 2003]. In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, "Did he leave a will?" but "Did he leave a diary?" --Liza Minelli (1946 ) American singer and actress. _Observer_ [13 August 1989] [Of Hollywood:] A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. --Wilson Mizner (18761933) American playwright. Quoted in Alva Johnston _The Legendary Mizners_ [1953]. - A dreary industrial town controlled by hoodlums of enormous wealth. --attributed to S.J. Perelman (19041979) American humorist and author. The mere mention of Hollywood induces a condition in me like breakbone fever. It was a hideous and untenable place when I dwelt there, populated with few exceptions by Yahoos, and now that it has become the chief citadel of television, it's unspeakable. --S.J. Perelman (19041979) American humorist and author. Interview in "Paris Review" [1964]. - ^ Norma Talmadge (18951957) American silent movie actress. Some years into her retirement, after making over fifty movies and reigning as a queen of Hollywood for years, she was besieged by a crowd of admirers when she was spotted leaving a restaurant in Los Angeles. As she drove away, she called out to her fans, 'Go away! I don't need you anymore.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ A place where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors. --Walter Winchell (18971972) American journalist. - The greatest motion picture in all history, by the world's most outstanding writer. The directorial genius of Mamoulian, the beauty of Anna Sten and the producing genius of Goldwyn have combined to make the greatest entertainment in the world. --advertising blurb for film "We Live Again" [1934] & note Samuel Goldwyn's critique: That's the kind of ad I like. Facts, facts, facts. --Samuel Goldwyn (18821974) American film producer. - ;void(0)) HOLOCAUST . . see "EVIL" for related links A SHORT HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST The Jews have done nothing but add to our difficulties by propaganda and deeds since the war began ... The morally censorious attitude of the United States in general to other people's affairs has long attracted attention, but when it is coupled with unscrupulous Zionist 'sob-stuff' and misrepresentation, it is very hard to bear. --British Colonial Office mandarin J.T. Bennett [18 April 1941]: in Bernard Wasserstein _Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945_ [1979] p.50. It was common practice to remove the skin from dead prisoners ... It was chemically treated and placed in the sun to dry. After that it was cut into shapes for use as saddles, riding breeches, gloves, house slippers and ladies' handbags. Tattooed skin was especially valued by SS men. --Czech Dr Franz Blaha, a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp [9 January 1946]. - [ . . . ] The Final Solution was the deliberate act of a government to exterminate a portion of its own people. It employed the resources of the state its policy makers, planners, intellectuals, legal system, police and military, industry, transportation system and to a large extent its people to single out a particular group of citizens, systematically demonize and isolate them, and then count them, label them, strip them of everything, round them up, ship them to concentration camps, kill them and incinerate them. It attempted to squeeze some last value out of the most fit among those doomed, by employing them as slave labor or subjecting them to medical experimentation before killing them, and even then looked for ways to make saleable products out of their remains. This horror began in peacetime, so the nation was not lashing out in self-defense, nor was it being threatened in any concrete way. In the early 1930s, when the state-driven process of isolating and demonizing Jews began, Germany had rebuilt itself after its defeat in World War I, and was the most powerful nation on the European continent. Indeed, it would soon sweep across its borders and conquer every country within its reach. Its science, medical and technological prowess were the envy of the world. The Holocaust disturbs us so deeply because it demonstrates that none of the things we associate with the advancement of civilization peace, prosperity, industrialization, education, technological achievement free us from the dark side of the human soul. Just as there is evil in the heart of every man, there is evil at the heart of even the most "civilized" human society. It is a humbling recognition. Man and society are both capable of the most appallingly depraved behavoir. Only in the case of society, it occurs on an industrial scale. [ . . . ] --Mark Bowden "The Six-Million Person Question" _The Wall Street Journal_ [4 October 2006] - If the Germans want to put the yellow Jewish star in Denmark, I and my whole family will wear it as a sign of the highest distinction. --Christian X (18701947) King of Denmark [19121947] who symbolized the nation's resistence to the German occupation during World War II. In the first weeks of the camp's operation the orchestra played operetta melodies ... in order to drown the cries of the victims in the gas chambers. Later, that was stopped. --Court judgement in the post-war trial of SS guards in the Treblinka death camp. - Arriving at Auschwitz, Belsec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sibiror, and Treblinka, the Jews encountered a standard procedure. At camps maintaining labor installations, like Auschwitz, 10 percent of the arrivals those who looked fittest were selected for work. The remainder were consigned to the gas chambers. They were instructed to undress; the women and the girls had their hair cut. They were then marched between files of auxiliary police (Ukrainians usually) who hurried them along with whips, sticks, or guns, to the gas chambers. As in Operation T-4 (code name for the program that murdered tens of thousands of mental patients in German insane asylums), these were identified as shower rooms. The Jews were rammed in, one person per square foot. The gassing lasted from ten to thirty minutes, depending on the facilities and techniques used. In Belzec, according to an eyewitness, it took thirty-two minutes and "finally, all were dead," he wrote, "like pillars of basalt, still erect, not having any space to fall." To make room for the next load, the bodies were right away tossed out, "blue, wet with sweat and urine, the legs covered with feces and menstrual blood." Later the bodies were burned, either in the open air or in crematoria. A worker at Auschwitz said that "the stench given off by the pyres contaminated the surrounding countryside. At night the red sky over Auschwitz could be seen for miles." --Lucy S. Dawidowicz (19151990) American historian and author. _The War Against The Jews: 19331945_ [1975] - In my opinion a disproportionate amount of time of the Office is wasted on dealing with these wailing Jews. --British Foreign Office official A.R. Dew [1 September 1944]; in Martin Gilbert _Auschwitz and the Allies_ [1981] p. 312. I picked my way over corpse after corpse in the gloom until I heard one voice that rose above the gentle, undulating moaning. I found a girl, she was a living skeleton, impossible to gauge her age for she had practically no hair left on her head and her face was a yellow parchment sheet with two holes in it for eyes. She was stretching out her stick of an arm and gasping something. It was 'English, English, medicine, medicine', and she was trying to cry but had not enough strength. And beyond her down the passage, there were convulsive movements of dying people too weak to raise themselves from the floor. --Richard Dimbleby (19131965) English war correspondent, journalist, and broadcaster. At Belsen concentration camp [19 April 1945]; in Tom Hickman _What did you do in the War, Auntie? The BBC at War 193945_ [1995] p.190. I visited every nook and cranny of the camp because I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify at first hand about those things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda. --Dwight D. Eisenhower (18901969), American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII, NATO commander, American President [19531961]. (On his visit to Buchenwald concentration camp [13 April 1945].) We started with three and a half million Jews here. Of that number, only a few work companies remain. Everybody else has let us say emigrated. --Hans Frank (19001946) German politician and lawyer who served as govenor-general of Poland during WWII. [2 August 1943] in Joachim Remak _The Nazi Years_ [1969] p.158. The people were still standing like columns of stone, with no room to fall or lean. Even in death you could tell the families, all holding hands. It was difficult to separate them while emptying the room for the next batch. The bodies were tossed out, blue, wet with sweat and urine, the legs smeared with excrement and menstrual blood. Two dozen workers were busy checking mouths which they opened with iron hooks ... Dentists knocked out gold teeth, bridges and crowns with hammers. --SS officer Kurt Gerstein. witness of a gassing at Belzec death camp [18 August 1942], in a statement given on 6 May 1945; in Martin Gilbert _The Holocaust_ [1986] pp.427-428. Along with Bolshevism, Jewry is also about to experience its great disaster ... We must speed up this process coldly and ruthlessly, and we are doing mankind, tortured by Jewry for thousands of years, an inestimable service. --Joseph Goebbels (18971945) German Nazi leader & minister of propaganda. Diary entry [14 February 1942], in Louis P. Lochner _The Goebbels Diaries_ [1948] p. 87. I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to ... a final solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence. --Hermann Goering (18931946) German Nazi leader. Instructions to Reinhard Heydrich [31 July 1941]. I was the first or second tank in the column that liberated a major concentration camp, Magdeburg. When I came around the corner of that pine forest lane and saw the human skeletons hanging from the barbed wire enclosing the camp, I thought, how barbarous of men to string up corpses. Then some of the skeletons moved slightly and I realised I was looking at the starved living. There was a horror beyond the horror of all the dying I had seen. I learned a lesson that day. There are worse things than battle. When they come to take you off to the camp, fight. And people who tell you that you will be better off in the camps than resisting are not your friends. --Arthur T. Hadley, _The Straw Giant - America's Armed Forces: Triumphs and Failures_ [1986] Now the rough work has been done we begin the period of finer work. We need to work in harmony with the civil administration. We count on you gentlemen as far as the final solution is concerned. --Reinhard Heydrich (19041942) German Nazi leader. [On plans to exterminate millions of European Jews - in a speech in Wansee, Germany, 20 January 1942.] We must exterminate these people root and branch. Just think how many people will never be born because of this, and how a people can be broken in nerve and spirit when such a plague gets hold of it. When someone in the Security Services, in the SS, or in the government has homosexual tendencies, he abandons the normal order of things for the perverted world of the homosexual. We can't permit such danger to the country; the homosexual must be entirely eliminated. --Heinrich Himmler (19001945) German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military commander. To his doctor Felix Kersten; in _The Kersten Memoirs_ [1957] p.57. I want today once again to make a prophecy; if the international Jewish financiers within and without Europe succeed once more in hurling the people into a world war, the result will be, not the Bolshevization of the world and with it a victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe. --Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. Reichstag speech [30 January 1939] I am grateful for having been allowed to see this bastard race close up. If fate permits, I shall have something to tell my children. Syphilitics, cripples, idiots were typical of them ... They were not men but monkeys in human form. --Police sergeant Jacob [21 June 1942] The death we gave them was a nice quick death; compared with the hellish torrnent of thousands upon thousands in the dungeons of the GPU. Babies flew in a big arc through the air and we picked them off in mid-flight before they landed in the pit or in the water . --Walter Mattner to his wife [5 October 1941], in Guido Knopp _Hitler's Holocaust_ [2000] p.52. (GPU was the Soviet secret police.) The shooting of the Jews is simpler than that of the Gypsies. One has to admit that the Jews go to their death composed they stand very calmly whereas the Gypsies cry, scream and move constantly while they already stand at the place of the shooting. Several even jump into the ditch and pretend to be dead. --Junior officer Hans-Dietrich Walther, report of 4 November 1941 on reprisal executions in Serbia; International Military Tribunal _Trial of the Major War Criminals_ v. II [1947] pp.1139-40. [Concentration camp commandant] Franz Ziereis boasted, according to biographer [Alan] Levy, that he had given his son a birthday present: "50 Jews for target practice." --Henry Weinstein, L.A. Times Staff Writer _Los Angeles Times_ [21 September 2005], "Nazi Hunter Loyal To The Dead" - That day I encountered the first American soldiers in the Buchenwald concentration camp. I remember them well. Bewildered, disbelieving, they walked around the place, hell on earth, where our destiny had been played out. They looked at us, just liberated, and did not know what to do or say. Survivors snatched from the dark throes of death, we were empty of all hope too weak, too emaciated to hug them or even speak to them. Like lost children, the American soldiers wept and wept with rage and sadness. And we received their tears as if they were heartrending offerings from a wounded and generous humanity. --Eliezer [Elie] Wiesel (1928 ) Romanian Jew and Holocaust survivor. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. "The America I Love" Where was God in all this? Was this another test, one more? Or a punishment? And if so, for what sins? What crimes were being punished? Was there a misdeed that deserved so many mass graves? Would it ever again be possible to speak of justice, of truth, of divine charity, after the murder of one million Jewish children? --Eliezer [Elie] Wiesel (1928 ) Romanian Jew and Holocaust survivor. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. "To Be a Jew" in _A Jew Today_, tr. Marion Wiesel [1978] - When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it. . . . If we pardon this genocide, it will be repeated, and not only on Jews. If we don't learn this lesson, then millions died for nothing. --Simon Wiesenthal (19082005) Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. _Los Angeles Times_ [21 September 2005], "Nazi Hunter Loyal To The Dead" The coloured triangles signify: red - political prisoners green - professional criminals black - a-socials [who included gypsies] pink - homosexuals violet - Jehovah's Witnesses The Jewish prisoners wear no triangle, but the Star of David. --Rudolf Yrba and Alfred Wetzler, extract from their report on Auschwitz, about 28 April 1944, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 831. Cohan & Major add: Yrba and Wetzler escaped from the Auschwitz death camp on 10 April. Their report, based on their own experience as prisoners. gave the outside world the first hard confirmation of conditions inside the camp. It was published in the United States on 2 Nov. 1944, the same day that the Nazi order was given to begin destroying the Auschwitz crematoria. - Maximilian Kolby - Polish priest: In May 1941 the friary was closed down and Maximilian and four companions were taken to Auschwitz, where they worked with the other prisoners, chiefly at carrying logs. Maximilian carried on his priestly work surreptitiously, hearing confessions in unlikely places and celebrating the Lord's Supper with bread and wine smuggled in for that purpose. In order to discourage escapes, the camp had a rule that if a man escaped, ten men would be killed in retaliation. In July 1941 a man from Kolbe's bunker escaped. The remaining men of the bunker were led out and ten were selected, including a Sergeant Francis Gajowniczek. When he uttered a cry of dismay, Maximilian stepped forward and said, "I am a Catholic priest. Let me take his place. I am old. He has a wife and children." The officer had more use for a young worker than for an old one, and was happy to make the exchange. The ten men were placed in a large cell and left there to starve. Maximilian encouraged the others with prayers, psalms, and meditations on the Passion of Christ. After two weeks, only four were alive, and only Maximilian was fully conscious. The four were killed with injections of carbolic acid on 14 August 1941. http://www.fatherkolbe.com/ end page | HABIT - HANGOVER | HAPPINESS | HAPPY BIRTHDAY - HATE | HATS - HEAT | HEALTH | HEAVEN - HIPPOS | HISTORIANS & HISTORY | HITCHCOCK - HOLOCAUST | HOME - HOMETOWNS | HONESTY & HONOR | HOOVER - HOTELS | HOUSE - HUMAN NATURE | HUMAN RACE - HUMANITY | HUMILIATION - HURT | HUMOR | HURTING (SOMEONE) | HUSBANDS - HYPOCRISY | | H | I - J | K - L | M | N - O | P - Q | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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