But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.