UN General Assembly
1961

45. This world that we want to be better will not be better if we cultivate bitterness, with hate-filled words for those who have committed wrongs and errors in the past, errors such as we continue, alas, to see committed by those around us. Now, more than fifteen years after the greatest defeat any nation has ever known, the time has perhaps come to let the German people themselves freely decide their future. History, that record which cannot be falsified, is there to remind us all that dismemberments, annexations, sub-divisions and corridors have always been fatal to the cause of peace.