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"Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time."
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"But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war."
"There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours."
"It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching."
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"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."
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