Wiesenthal Quotes

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

Forgetting is something time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, that repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man. —Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower

For him we were as good as dead; each of us was carrying around his own death certificate, from which only the date was missing.

To the aesthetic crimes against the city of Jerusalem can be added those of culture and religion. One of the most important parts of the Mamilla area was its Muslim cemetery dating back to the seventh century. The graves were removed at night so that no one could witness this, and in their place the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation built a Museum of Tolerance! To ensure that Muslims could not reach this sacred site, it was surrounded by an electric fence.12 Desecrating Muslim graveyards for new constructions was nothing new, however: the old cemetery in Haifa, al-Istiqlal, was desecrated in a similar way when a highway was driven through it, scattering the gravestones to either side.

However, all works of history lean on a smaller bank of key resources as a gateway into the research: The Nazi Hunters and Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb; The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski; Hunting Evil by Guy Walters; Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends by Tom Segev; Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File by Alan Levy; Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice by Gerald Steinacher; The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men by Eric Lichtblau; the seminal Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt; and the equally spectacular Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth. The best research we came across concerning the validity of claims about the existence of an ODESSA group can be found in The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina by Uki Goni.

In February 2018, Oskar Deutsch, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Austria, observed that the Vienna-based Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal used to receive antisemitic threats all the time. But those letters were anonymous and there was little means of tracing the writers. Today, Deutsch says, “these threats clearly state exactly who they come from. That is the problem—antisemitic statements are becoming ever more normal.

And I reflect that people like him are still being born, people who can be indoctrinated with evil. Mankind is ostensibly striving to avert catastrophes; medical progress gives us hope that one day disease can be conquered, but will we ever be able to prevent the creation of mass murderers?

Maastricht, Groningen, AEX Amsterdam en Rotterdam.

NATO puts his Royal dig in my Majesty Service. Thanks.

Show, me your titties, NATO. Milking the cows.

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man which repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man. so when one begins to doubt one begins to cease to believe in a world order in which God has a different place. One really begins to think that God is on leave.

To forgive without justice is a self-satisfying weakness. Justice without love is simulation of strength.

The crux of the matter is, of course, the question of forgiveness. Forgetting is something that time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

Wiesenthal admitted to Bauer that he had invented a historical fantasy in order to give the Holocaust a more universal cast and to find a number which was almost as large as the Jewish death toll but not quite equal to it. When Elie Wiesel challenged Wiesenthal to provide some historical proof that five million non-Jews were murdered in the camps, Wiesenthal, rather than admit that he invented the five million number, accused Wiesel of ‘Judeocentrism,’ being concerned only about Jews. -- The Eichmann Trial, page 9

At the first Holocaust memorial commemoration in the Capitol Rotunda, both President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Mondale referred to the ‘eleven million victims.’ Carter also used Wiesenthal’s figures of ‘six million Jews and five million others’ in his Executive Order establishing the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. I have attended Holocaust memorial commemorations in places as diverse as synagogues and army forts where eleven candles were lit. More significant is that strangers have repeatedly taken me and other colleagues to task for ignoring the five million non-Jews. When I explain that this is an invented concept, they become convinced of my ethnocentrism.

In fact, this figure [five million “murdered” Gentiles] is too high if one is counting victims who were targeted exclusively for racial reasons, but too low if one counts the total number of victims the Nazi regime killed outside military operations. (...) Wiesenthal’s aggrandizement of his role in the Eichmann capture is far less disturbing and historiographically significant than another of his inventions. In an attempt to elicit non-Jewish interest in the Holocaust, Wiesenthal decided to broaden the population of victims—even though it meant falsifying history. He began to speak of eleven million victims: six million Jews and five million non-Jews. Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer immediately recognized that this number made no historical sense. Who, Bauer wondered, constituted Wiesenthal’s five million. --The Eichmann Trial, page 8

Wiesenthal’s aggrandizement of his role in the Eichmann capture is far less disturbing and historiographically significant than another of his inventions. In an attempt to elicit non-Jewish interest in the Holocaust, Wiesenthal decided to broaden the population of victims—even though it meant falsifying history. He began to speak of eleven million victims: six million Jews and five million non-Jews. Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer immediately recognized that this number made no historical sense. Who, Bauer wondered, constituted Wiesenthal’s five million?" -- The Eichmann Trial, page 8

Pero yo, incluso mucho antes de haber tenido tiempo de meditar detenidamente, comprendí que no debíamos olvidar. SI todos nosotros olvidábamos, podía volver a ocurrir lo mismo al cabo de veinte, cincuenta o cien años

Siempre habrá personas con un punto de vista distinto. En mi país tenemos demócratas y republicanos. Aquí vosotros tenéis nazis y antinazis. Eso es lo que hace que el mundo no se pare.

Esa fue la gran fuerza de Eichmann, que tratara el problema judío sin emoción alguna; por eso fue el hombre más peligroso de todos, por estar exento de todo sentimiento humano. En una ocasión dijo que él no era un antisemita. Pero sí era antihumano

Nosotros, como todas las razas, tenemos nuestros santos y nuestros pecadores, nuestros cobardes y nuestros héroes.

La reconciliación sólo es posible sobre la base del conocimiento de la realidad

¿Podían los muchachos ser culpados por los pecados de sus progenitores? Ciertamente no eran ellos los responsables

Los hombres eran endurecidos en Rabka para que no se derrumbaran tras unas pocas semanas de servicios y tenían que hacerse insensibles a la sangre, a los gritos de agonía de mujeres y niños, debiendo realizar el trabajo con el mínimo ruido y la máxima eficacia

Sobrevivir era un trabajo que requería todas las horas del día

La restitución moral es más fuerte que la restitución material

Los nazis consideraban la eutanasia como una clase de ejecución casi ética y la reservaban para miembros de su propia raza

Si un "estudiante" no se desmoronaba cuando tenía que matar a los suyos, no tendría escrúpulo moral para exterminar miles de Untermenschen. El "estudiante" que no lo resistía, era enviado al frente, donde sus superiores lo destinaban a un Himmetfahrtskommando, escuadrón suicida

Un judío sigue siendo judío, con o sin piernas

No hay libertad sin justicia

Justicia, no venganza

Perhaps the sentiment was best expressed by noted Holocaust survivor turned Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal: “for evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.” More

American Jewish organizations (as well as Israel) rallied behind the Bush administration’s criminal aggression against Iraq, with Elie Wiesel declaring that “the world faced a crisis similar to 1938” and “the choice is simple,” and with self-promoting “Nazi hunter” Simon Wiesenthal proclaiming that “you cannot wait indefinitely on dictators. Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, but for six years the world did not act.” Critics of the war stood accused of everything from Chamberlain-style “appeasement” to “an anti-Semitism of a type long thought dead in the West,” while even prominent American poets opposing the Iraqi war and Israel’s occupation were chastised for playing “on the edges of 1930s-style anti-Semitism.

She looked at me, when she was fallen.

For evil to flourish it takes only a few good men to do nothing.

If I am not a toy boy, with you, I am going to push you, till the Edge.

Did he know already that he would get a sunflower when he was buried? The murderer would own something even when he was dead…And I?

Look,’ he said, ‘those Jews died quickly, they did not suffer as i do—though they were not as guilty as I am.

I stood up and looked in his direction, at his folded hands. Between then there seemed to rest a sunflower. At last I made up my mind and without a word I left the room.

Arthur said: “A superman has asked a subhuman to do something which is superhuman. If you had forgiven him, you would never have forgiven yourself all your life.

It would have been to know himself as having forfeited forever any questionable right to “die in peace.” Perhaps then, and only then, in knowing his absolute unforgivability, would it even be conceivable that he be granted forgiveness—and then only by those three burning souls, multiplied by millions.

The main title of an author describes my perceptive interpretation of the Sunflower oder Die Sonnenblume.

The best and most effective espionage service in the world belongs to the Vatican.

But Herr Wiesenthal, I’m Catholic.” “Miss Moran, the Church can be very dangerous when it feels threatened.

What, if anything, would happen to her was still uncertain. But for once, the country seemed to be taking notice. American officials could brush aside Chuck Allen’s fevered ranting with no fear of political fallout. But now Simon Wiesenthal and the New York Times were on the story.

Améry’s reply to Simon Wiesenthal in The Sunflower (1976) “beyond” the theology of forgiveness, On

Arnon Grunberg, dat was, zo'n schrijver.

In 2003 an Armenian group protested that the LDS had baptized by proxy notable members of its community as well. In 2008 the Vatican sent a letter to parishes all over the world asking them to not share their records with Mormon genealogists. In 2012 it was widely reported that Anne Frank had been posthumously baptized into the Mormon Church. Similar stories emerged. Stanley Ann Dunham, the late mother of Barack Obama; Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was abducted and murdered in Pakistan in 2002; Adolf Hitler; Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter; and Steve Irwin, the Australian TV naturalist, had all been baptized.

Este poder e influencia en el mundo llevó a la CIA a convertir la Santa Sede, los papas, cardenales, obispos y demás funcionarios eclesiásticos en «objetivos» susceptibles de ser vigilados y espiados, porque, como dijo un día el famoso cazanazis Simon Wiesenthal, «El lugar mejor informado del planeta es sin duda el Vaticano», y la Agencia Central de Inteligencia, desde su fundación en 1947, lo sabía.