have often a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality… —Goethe Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed. —Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander in Chief of the German Army, 1938–41 A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased. —Hans Frank, Governor General of Poland, before he was hanged at Nuremberg Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it. —Santayana