Author: Douglas Hurd

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Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.

- Douglas Hurd

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

- Douglas Hurd

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

- Douglas Hurd

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.

- Douglas Hurd

History provides no precise guidelines.

History provides no precise guidelines.

- Douglas Hurd

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

- Douglas Hurd

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

- Douglas Hurd

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

- Douglas Hurd

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.

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.

- Douglas Hurd

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