“…Augustine, the writings of Martin Luther and in the voices of the Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisitors, all of which may have helped sow the ideological seeds that developed into Nazism's racist ideology against the Jews.…”

“…The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and deals with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.…”

“…Various fragments of the extensive Nuremberg footage were later used in numerous films condemning Nazism (The Trial of Nations) as well as for drawing an often manipulative parallel with contemporaries (Nuremberg 40 years later).…”

“…Leipzig DOK Festival 1965 - Special Prize of the Jury (Long Footage Category) Romm's "Ordinary Fascism" pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s-1940s Europe, but also to a firmest of convictions that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen again anywhere in the world. the film was released in 1965, in the Soviet Union's heyday at the height of the great societal and intellectual "thaw" that followed the Stalin's death and the denunciation of Stalin's totalitarianism by Nikita Khruschev. …”

“…Released in 1955 under the German title "It happened on July 20th," Pabst's film presents, in the heroic figure of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a counter-image to Nazism's monstrous past, calling upon postwar Germans to ensure that he and others did not give their lives in vain.…”

“…The picture does more than just judge the chilling figure of Barbie – it touches with agonising eloquence the consciences of several western states, victors over Nazism, by revealing the principles which many of them accepted after the war.…”