A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.