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Though remarkable for patient and laborious thought, the true German is a joyous child of freedom, fond of manly sports, a lover of music, and a happy man generally. ~ <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass" title="Frederick Douglass">Frederick Douglass</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans" class="extiw" title="w:Germans">Germans</a></b> are a Germanic ethnic group native to <a href="/wiki/Central_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Europe">Central Europe</a>, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history. <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> is the shared mother tongue of a substantial majority of ethnic Germans. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2018-03-12_Unterzeichnung_des_Koalitionsvertrages_der_19._Wahlperiode_des_Bundestages_by_Sandro_Halank%E2%80%93010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/2018-03-12_Unterzeichnung_des_Koalitionsvertrages_der_19._Wahlperiode_des_Bundestages_by_Sandro_Halank%E2%80%93010.jpg/220px-2018-03-12_Unterzeichnung_des_Koalitionsvertrages_der_19._Wahlperiode_des_Bundestages_by_Sandro_Halank%E2%80%93010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/2018-03-12_Unterzeichnung_des_Koalitionsvertrages_der_19._Wahlperiode_des_Bundestages_by_Sandro_Halank%E2%80%93010.jpg/330px-2018-03-12_Unterzeichnung_des_Koalitionsvertrages_der_19._Wahlperiode_des_Bundestages_by_Sandro_Halank%E2%80%93010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/2018-03-12_Unterzeichnung_des_Koalitionsvertrages_der_19._Wahlperiode_des_Bundestages_by_Sandro_Halank%E2%80%93010.jpg/440px-2018-03-12_Unterzeichnung_des_Koalitionsvertrages_der_19._Wahlperiode_des_Bundestages_by_Sandro_Halank%E2%80%93010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6210" data-file-height="2647" /></a><figcaption>[O]nly Germans are self-confident on the basis of an abstract notion- science, that is, the supposed knowledge of absolute truth. ... The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth- science- which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth. ~ <a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Klinsmann_Bakery_20060521.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Klinsmann_Bakery_20060521.jpg/220px-Klinsmann_Bakery_20060521.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Klinsmann_Bakery_20060521.jpg/330px-Klinsmann_Bakery_20060521.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Klinsmann_Bakery_20060521.jpg/440px-Klinsmann_Bakery_20060521.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>In Germany, it's, let's say it's 5:59 and you're heading for the bakery or whatever and it's due to close at 6. The German will walk right up to that door and close it right in your face, they will lock it on the other side of that glass door with a shrug, like "sorry". ~ <a href="/wiki/Brian_Reynolds_Myers" title="Brian Reynolds Myers">Brian Reynolds Myers</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="B">B</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/British_people" title="British people">Brits</a> look to provoke. The <a href="/wiki/Italians" title="Italians">Italians</a> occasionally imagine conversations, though not maliciously. The Germans veer from confrontational to <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalistic</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ballard_(journalist)" class="extiw" title="w:Chris Ballard (journalist)">Chris Ballard</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/1/www.si.com/soccer/2018/05/16/jurgen-klinsmann-us-soccer-world-cup-usmnt">"The Reflection, Future and Duality of Post-USMNT Jurgen Klinsmann"</a> (16 May 2018), <i>Sports Illustrated</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We [Germans] want to prove that we are good people. Even if no one wants to be reminded of this, the good that we do has to be seen in relation to the crimes that we initiated. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnulf_Baring" class="extiw" title="w:Arnulf Baring">Arnulf Baring</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/1/www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/10ad01dc-5645-11e5-a28b-50226830d644.html">"Migrant crisis brings out big-hearted ‘Generation Merkel’"</a> (9 September 2015), by James Shotter and Jeevan Vasagar, <i>Financial Times</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We Germans have a far greater and more urgent duty towards civilization to perform than the Great Asiatic Power. We, like the <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a>, can only fulfil it by the sword. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_von_Bernhardi" class="extiw" title="w:Friedrich von Bernhardi">Friedrich von Bernhardi</a>, <i>Germany and the next War</i> (1911), Chapter XIII</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[W]hen people ask me are you, as a German, feel responsible for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_Holocaust" class="extiw" title="w:the Holocaust">the Holocaust</a>? No, because I'm born 1965 and it would be completely un-logical to say I'm responsible, but as a country we are responsible. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Uwe_Boll" title="Uwe Boll">Uwe Boll</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/2001/www.youtube.com/watch?v=huqiOG51gms">interview</a> (2010), <i>Lopta Film</i>, Lopta and Moist</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="C">C</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>For, after all, survey the remaining forces of <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilisation</a>; they are overwhelming. If only they were united in a common conception of right and duty, there would be no war. On the contrary, the German people, industrious, faithful, valiant, but alas! lacking in the proper spirit of civic <a href="/wiki/Independence" title="Independence">independence</a>, liberated from their present nightmare, would take their honoured place in the vanguard of human society. <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a> remarked that the <a href="/wiki/Asian_people" title="Asian people">people of Asia</a> were <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slaves</a> because they had not learned to pronounce the word “No.” Let that not be the epitaph of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world" class="extiw" title="w:English-speaking world">English-speaking peoples</a> or of <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_system" title="Parliamentary system">Parliamentary democracy</a>, or of <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, or of the many surviving <a href="/wiki/Liberal_democracy" title="Liberal democracy">liberal States</a> of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/1/www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1930-1938-the-wilderness/the-defence-of-freedom-and-peace-the-lights-are-going-out/">broadcast to the United States and to London</a> (16 October 1938)</li></ul></li> <li>The victors imposed upon the Germans all the long-sought ideals of the <a href="/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">liberal</a> <a href="/wiki/Nations" title="Nations">nations</a> of the West. They were relieved from the burden of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_military_service" class="extiw" title="w:Compulsory military service">compulsory military service</a> and from the need of keeping up heavy armaments. The enormous <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="/wiki/Government_debt" title="Government debt">loans</a> were presently pressed upon them, though they had no <a href="/wiki/Credit" title="Credit">credit</a>. A <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democratic</a> <a href="/wiki/Constitutions" title="Constitutions">constitution</a>, in accordance with all the latest improvements, was established at Weimar. Emperors having been driven out, nonentities were elected. Beneath this flimsy fabric raged the passions of the mighty, defeated, but substantially uninjured German nation. The prejudice of the Americans against <a href="/wiki/Monarchy" title="Monarchy">monarchy</a>, which <a href="/wiki/David_Lloyd_George" title="David Lloyd George">Mr. Lloyd George</a> made no attempt to counteract, had made it clear to the beaten Empire that it would have better treatment from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_I" class="extiw" title="w:Allies of World War I">Allies</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Republic" title="Republic">republic</a> than as a monarchy. Wise policy would have crowned and fortified the <a href="/wiki/Weimar_Republic" title="Weimar Republic">Weimar Republic</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_democracy" title="Constitutional democracy">constitutional</a> <a href="/wiki/Sovereign" class="mw-redirect" title="Sovereign">sovereign</a> in the person of an infant grandson of the <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor" title="Wilhelm II, German Emperor">Kaiser</a>, under a council of regency. Instead, a gaping void was opened in the national life of the German people. All the strong elements, <a href="/wiki/Military" title="Military">military</a> and <a href="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">feudal</a>, which might have rallied to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" class="extiw" title="w:Constitutional monarchy">constitutional monarchy</a> and for its sake respected and sustained the new democratic and parliamentary processes, were for the time being unhinged. The Weimar Republic, with all its liberal trappings and blessings, was regarded as an imposition of the enemy. It could not hold the loyalties or the imagination of the German people. For a spell they sought to cling as in desperation to the aged <a href="/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg" title="Paul von Hindenburg">Marshal Hindenburg</a>. Thereafter mighty forces were adrift; the void was open, and into that void after a pause there strode a maniac of ferocious genius, the repository and expression of the most virulent hatreds that have ever corroded the human breast – <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Corporal Hitler</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, <i>The Second World War Volume I: The Gathering Storm</i> (1948), <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/039541055X" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0-395-41055-X</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And now it's time for me to meet <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>'s "cuddly teddybears"... the <i>Germans</i>. Germany as a country has only been in existence for just over a hundred years. But in that time they've started two world wars, they've had two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" class="extiw" title="w:Coup d'état">military coups</a>, they've been brought on the brink of starvation two times, and they've invaded almost all of their neighbours. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson" title="Jeremy Clarkson">Jeremy Clarkson</a>, <i>Top Gear: Jeremy Meets the Neighbours</i> (2002)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="E">E</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I thought that the essential factor we have to remember in deciding on our plans and policy for the future is that in the German character the unquestioned authority of the <a href="/wiki/State" title="State">State</a> is what counts for most. The average German is the instrument of the State to an extent which is incomprehensible to us. He belongs to the State, and the State does not belong to him. I see no signs of that in this country, and I believe that the authority we enjoy in the world to-day is precisely because we represent the complete antithesis of the German State conception. This acceptance of the State, since the days of the Prussians, has made Germans ready to aid any leader who wants to guide them into fields of aggression. With the German, the larger the State the more remote and the more majestic is the authority he is prepared to follow into battle or wherever he is led. Germans believe that it is the destiny of their race to be the dominating Power in Europe; that is far more important to them than either the <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a> of the individual or the <a href="/wiki/Dignity" title="Dignity">dignity</a> of any particular man or woman. Unless we are seized of that we do not understand the foundation on which <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazi</a> doctrine was so easily superimposed. It was acceptable to the average German because it expressed in aggressive forms the belief which the average German has had for 200 years or more. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Eden" title="Anthony Eden">Anthony Eden</a>, speech in the House of Commons (1 December 1944)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="D">D</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>To no class of our population are we more indebted for valuable qualities of head, heart, and hand, than to the German. Say what we will of their <a href="/wiki/Beer" title="Beer">lager</a>, their <a href="/wiki/Smoke" class="mw-redirect" title="Smoke">smoke</a>, and their <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysics</a>, they have brought to us a fresh, vigorous and child-like nature; a boundless facility in the acquisition of <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a>; a subtle and far-reaching <a href="/wiki/Intellect" title="Intellect">intellect</a>, and a fearless love of <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>. Though remarkable for patient and laborious <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a>, the true German is a joyous child of <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>, fond of manly <a href="/wiki/Sports" title="Sports">sports</a>, a lover of <a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">music</a>, and a happy man generally. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass" title="Frederick Douglass">Frederick Douglass</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/1/www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/our-composite-nationality/">"Our Composite Nationality"</a> (7 December 1869), Boston, Massachusetts</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="F">F</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>[W]hy should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">their Language</a> and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? Why should <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, founded by the <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a>, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion. Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a> is <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">black</a> or tawny. <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a> chiefly tawny. <a href="/wiki/America" class="mw-redirect" title="America">America</a> (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spaniards</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italians" title="Italians">Italians</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Swedes" title="Swedes">Swedes</a>, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a>, make the principal Body of <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">White People</a> on the Face of the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">our Planet</a>, by clearing America of <a href="/wiki/Forests" title="Forests">Woods</a>, and so making this Side of <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">our Globe</a> reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> or <a href="/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a>, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">Sons of Africa</a>, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, 1751 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0080">Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Germans will be facing a decisive moment. If they do not assert themselves, their futures will be dictated by others and they will move from decadence to powerlessness. And with powerlessness would come a geopolitical spiral from which they would not recover. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Friedman" title="George Friedman">George Friedman</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000628085246/http://www.mysearch.org.uk/website1/pdf/715.2.pdf"><i>The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century</i></a> (2009), Doubleday, p. 151</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="G">G</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The German government and <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">European</a> rights organizations have been unwilling to change Berlin’s approach [to Germans in the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Federation">Russian Federation</a>], and so an initiative group led by Vyacheslav Bodrov, one of the so-called “Russian Germans,” is appealing to <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Russia" title="Religion in Russia">religious groups found among the Germans still in Russia</a>, including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonites" class="extiw" title="w:Mennonites">Mennonites</a> who are headquartered in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">US</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Goble" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Paul A. Goble">Paul A. Goble</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/03/ethnic-germans-step-up-efforts-to-leave.html">"Ethnic Germans Step Up Efforts to Leave Russia Because of War in Ukraine But Find It Almost Impossible to Emigrate to Germany"</a>, <i>Window on Eurasia</i> (March 5, 2024)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He who thinks as a German must despise the <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jew</a>. The one determines the other. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/angrif17.htm">"Warum sind wir Judengegner?"</a>, <i>Der Angriff. Aufsätze aus der Kampfzeit</i> (1935), Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, pp. 329–331</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="G_2">G</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Germany is dear to my heart. I have often felt a bitter pain at the thought of the German people, which is so respectable in the individual and so miserable in the collective. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>, Luden, Heinrich (1847). <i>Rückblicke in mein Leben</i> (in German): p. 119.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="H">H</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>'s two achievements were to have persuaded the world that <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a> was German and that <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven" title="Ludwig van Beethoven">Beethoven</a> was <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Viennese</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens" title="Christopher Hitchens">Christopher Hitchens</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/1/www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/03/the-2-000-year-old-panic/306640/">"The 2,000-Year-Old Panic"</a> (March 2008), <i>The Atlantic</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If the Providence has so willed that the German people cannot be spared this fight, then I can only be grateful that it entrusted me with the leadership in this historic struggle which, for the next 500 or 1,000 years, will be described as decisive, not only for the history of Germany, but for the whole of Europe and indeed the whole world. The German people and their soldiers are working and fighting today, not only for the present, but for the coming, nay the most distant, generations. A historical revision on a unique scale has been imposed on us by the Creator... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, speech before the Reichstag (11 December 1941)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="K">K</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Let us sterilize all Germans and wars of <a href="/wiki/World_domination" title="World domination">world domination</a> will come to an end! <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_N._Kaufman" class="extiw" title="w:Theodore N. Kaufman">Theodore N. Kaufman</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rPJOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gkwDAAAAIBAJ&dq=theodore-kaufman%20germany%20must%20perish&pg=2325%2C5306">"Hitler Will Be Nothing But A Rosebud Says Author 'Germany Must Perish!'. One Man's Plan For Peace Forever"</a> (26 September 1941), by Harold U. Ribalow, <i>The Canadian Jewish Chronicle</i>, p. 5</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">Frenchmen</a>, and at a chemical plant owned by <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgians</a>. There I discovered something about <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalists</a>. They are all alike, whatever the <a href="/wiki/Nations" title="Nations">nationality</a>. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a>, quoted in Edward Crankshaw, <i>Khrushchev: A Career</i> (1966), p. 12.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="L">L</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>These people were of all races, colors, and creeds.  <a href="/wiki/French_Colonial_Empire" title="French Colonial Empire">French</a> were in the north and in the Carolinas.  <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Empire" title="Dutch Empire">Dutch</a> had built the town on <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Manhattan (borough)">Manhattan</a> island, and their patroons' estates in the Hudson valley; now they were building their own cabins in the Mohawk Indian country that is now New York State.  Germans had settled in the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">Jerseys</a> and in the far west, beyond <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>.  Germans and <a href="/wiki/Ulster" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulster">Scotch-Irish</a> were climbing the Carolina mountains; <a href="/wiki/Swedes" title="Swedes">Swedes</a> were in <a href="/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware">Delaware</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a> and <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dutch_people" title="Dutch people">Dutch</a> and Irish were settled in <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a> Grants, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>.  Mingled with all these were <a href="/wiki/Italians" title="Italians">Italians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portuguese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Finns" title="Finns">Finns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Greeks</a>, and <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">Africans</a> from a dozen very different <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">African</a> peoples and cultures.  Black, brown, yellow and white, all these peoples were some of them free and some of them <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">slaves</a>.  Also they were intermarried with the <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">American Indians</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rose_Wilder_Lane" title="Rose Wilder Lane">Rose Wilder Lane</a>, §1 of "The Third Attempt," ch. V of Pt. Two of <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mises.org/library/discovery-freedom">The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority</a></i> (New York: The John Day Company, 1943), pp. 153–154.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In regard to Germans and foreigners, I esteem foreigners no better than other people, nor any worse. They are all of the great family of men, and if there is one shackle upon any of them, it would be far better to lift the load from them than to pile additional loads upon them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/1/quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln4/1:319.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext">speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio</a> (12 February 1861)</li> <li>Alternate version: In regard to the Germans and foreigners, I esteem them no better than other people, nor any worse.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Football</a> is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for ninety minutes and at the end, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany" class="extiw" title="w:West Germany">the Germans</a> win. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Lineker" class="extiw" title="w:Gary Lineker">Gary Lineker</a> after losing the 1990 FIFA World Cup semifinal to West Germany by a penalty shootout, as quoted in <i>Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France</i>, by Laurent DuBois, p. 79</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="M">M</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, it's, let's say it's 5:59 and you're heading for the bakery or whatever and it's due to close at 6. The German will walk right up to that door and close it right in your face, they will lock it on the other side of that glass door with a shrug, like "sorry". <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Reynolds_Myers" title="Brian Reynolds Myers">Brian Reynolds Myers</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000405131133/http://www.ec.libsyn.com/p/8/f/4/8f46b1085491f60a/NCC_Korea_Tour_BR_Myers.output.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d06cd8e3fd7cf5cee89&c_id=8305156">interview with Colin Marshall</a> (February 2015)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="P">P</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Stan:</b> Dude, what the fuck is wrong with German people? <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV_Zc-tsLHo"><i>South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut</i></a> (30 June 1999), by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trey_Parker" class="extiw" title="w:Trey Parker">Trey Parker</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Stone" class="extiw" title="w:Matt Stone">Matt Stone</a>, Paramount Pictures</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Germans are the only decent people in Europe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_S._Patton" title="George S. Patton">George S. Patton</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Patton-Man-Behind-Legend-1885-1945/dp/0688137954"><i>Patton: The Man Behind The Legend, 1885-1945</i></a> (1985) by Martin Blumenson, New York: William Morrison, p. 281</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="R">R</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share; that we lost. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch" class="extiw" title="w:Hanna Reitsch">Hanna Reitsch</a>, as quoted in "The first astronaut: tiny, daring Hanna", by Ron Laytner, <i>The Deseret News</i> (19 February 1981), pp. C1+, p. 12C</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Germans read the most fine literature in the world! <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorit_Rabinyan" class="extiw" title="w:Dorit Rabinyan">Dorit Rabinyan</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/1/www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/dorit-rabinyan-new-israeli-lit-qa">Interview</a> (2019)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S">S</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>For many Germans, self-determination was both persecution and promise. About ten million speakers of the <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German language</a>, former subjects of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_Empire" class="extiw" title="w:Habsburg Empire">Habsburg monarchy</a>, remained beyond Germany’s borders. Some three million such people inhabited the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland" class="extiw" title="w:Sudetenland">northwestern rim of Czechoslovakia</a>, right at the border of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia" class="extiw" title="w:Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a> and Germany. There were more Germans in Czechoslovakia than there were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovaks" class="extiw" title="w:Slovaks">Slovaks</a>. Almost the entire population of Austria, resting between Czechoslovakia and Germany, were German speakers. Austria was nevertheless required by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_St._Germain" class="extiw" title="w:Treaty of St. Germain">Treaty of St. Germain</a> to exist as a separate state, although much of its population would have preferred accession to Germany. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_German_Workers_Party" class="extiw" title="w:National Socialist German Workers Party">National Socialist German Workers Party</a> established in 1920, was an Austrian and an advocate of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss" class="extiw" title="w:Anschluss">Anschluss</a>: a unification of Austria and Germany. Such goals of national unity, dramatic as they were, actually concealed the full measure of Hitler’s ambitions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timothy_D._Snyder" title="Timothy D. Snyder">Timothy D. Snyder</a>, <i>Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin</i> (2010)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="T">T</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Pfuel was one of those hopelessly and immutably self-confident men, self-confident to the point of martyrdom as only Germans are, because only Germans are self-confident on the basis of an abstract notion- science, that is, the supposed knowledge of absolute truth. ... The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth- science- which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace" class="extiw" title="w:War and Peace"><i>War and Peace</i></a>, Book IX, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/1/www.literaturepage.com/read/warandpeace-898.html">Chapter Ten</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="V">V</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It will be a long time before I hear whether I qualify for German citizenship. Nothing will replace an extended family I will never know, nothing will displace the dark spaces inside my complex father, but I am anxious to see what does change if I become a German citizen. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Van_Buren" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Van Buren">Peter Van Buren</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/1/www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/considering-my-nazi-reparations/">"Considering My Nazi Reparations"</a> (28 July 2020), <i>The American Conservative</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="W">W</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germans&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I'm not German, I'm Austrian and <a href="/wiki/Austrians" title="Austrians">Austrians</a> have a wonderful sense of humour, Germans, not so much. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Waltz" class="extiw" title="w:Christoph Waltz">Christoph Waltz</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/1/www.thelocal.de/20130228/48231">"'Austrians have humour, Germans not so much'"</a> (28 February 2013), <i>The Local</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[T]here is the notion of sonderweg, literally the "special path," down which the German people are fated to wander. ... [W]hether viewed from within or without, left or right, the Germans could be seen through such a lens to possess some collective essence — a specialness — capable of explaining everything. In this way, one could speak of a trajectory “from <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Luther</a> to Hitler” and interpret history not as some chaotic jumble but as a crisp, linear process. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chatterton_Williams" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Chatterton Williams">Thomas Chatterton Williams</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/6rOoT#selection-2075.5-2075.340">"How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power"</a> (6 October 2017), <i>The New York Times</i>, New York</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. 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