When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Im always suspicious of people who repent of other peoples sins.

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

You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

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.