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.

It's very, very important for people to get a sense of what the potentialities of people really are, what the dangers of ignorance can be. It is in this context, that a supposedly advanced society risks descending into the sewer, that the Holocaust is a warning to people who think of themselves as an advanced, modern society.

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.

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.

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

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