I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.

No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.