O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall feel! If the parish is converted we shall go there in procession with the parish priest at the head. . . We must get to heaven! What a pity it would be if some of you were to find yourselves on the other side!

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims.

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.