"For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German."
— Germany

January 1, 1970

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Wilhelm II of Germany‎‎, in regard to Nazi anti-Jewish campaigns, after Kristallnacht, however this statement seems to contradict his other statements regarding Jews. (November 1938); as quoted in Our German Cousins : Anglo-German Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1974) by John Mander, p. 219