I wasn't very happy with the existing literature. They tended to look at the Earth as a cube. When people read books on the war, it's always like looking through a pipe at one theater or battle. They fail to engage the interrelationship between events.

People don't have to read all of it at one time; that's not required. I've told people that they can keep it in the trunks of their cars in case they're driving on icy roads so they won't skid.

During this period, I had been doing studies that hinted at the presence of another book written by Hitler. Since I was currently researching German foreign policy, you can understand that I was very excited.

The fires have been extinguished, but it is up to each and every one of us to see they are never lit again.

The most important failing is that they divorce the study of the Holocaust from the war.

I discovered, as a child, that spending time in Nazi-Germany as a Jew was not recreational. I also found that getting beat up in German schools was not pleasant.

We live in a world where there is enormous potential for evil.