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He is responsible because of the conspiracy and the plots for all that happened to the Jewish people from the shores of the Arctic Ocean to the Aegean Sea, from the Pyrenees to the Urals.
adolf eichmann— Gideon Hausner as quoted in The New York Times (27 June 1961)
Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.
charles de gaulle— Oui, c'est l'Europe, depuis l'Atlantique jusqu'à l'Oural, c'est toute l'Europe, qui décidera du destin du monde.
— 23 November 1959, Strasbourg. The phrase shown in bold is the most often quoted excerpt. De Gaulle was expressing his vision of Europe's future. Whether this implicitly excluded the United Kingdom is controversial, and rather unlikely in 1959.
