I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

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

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

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

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.