‘[…] the German people suffered a double scourge. It groaned under the kicks from its own tyrants and under the measures of war and retaliation that were imposed by the foreign powers to overcome Nazi rule. […]’
Paul Löbe speaking at the opening of the West German Bundestag, 7 September 1949.
Minutes of the 1949 Bundestag session: dserver.bundestag.de/btp/01/01001.pdf