In Germany, its, lets say its 5:59 and youre heading for the bakery or — Germans

"[W]hen people ask me are you, as a German, feel responsible for the Holocaust? No, because Im born 1965 and it would be completely un-logical to say Im responsible, but as a country we are responsible."

"Austrias two achievements were to have persuaded the world that Hitler was German and that Beethoven was Viennese."

"In examining the German (or for that matter the Jewish) character we find that the German has specific traits in common with almost every other European nation; he is supposed to have the profundity and depth of the Russian, the cleanliness of the Scandinavian, the thoroughness of the French, the linguistic abilities of the Pole, the melancholy of the Magyar, the gravity of the Dutch, the engineering genius of the British, the metaphysical speculation of the Near Easterner, the loyalty of the Swiss, the brutality of the Serb and the pragmatism of the Czech. Many of these qualities stand in a certain contradiction to each other and it must be admitted that the German as well as the Jewish character are highly contradictory in themselves. [...]"

"Germans are the only decent people in Europe."

"Im not German, Im Austrian and Austrians have a wonderful sense of humour, Germans, not so much."

"Germany is dear to my heart. I have often felt a bitter pain at the thought of the German people, which is so respectable in the individual and so miserable in the collective."