Joachim Peiper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.
Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss
In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.

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