21 quotes found
“In Germany, people will agree in theory that prostitution should be legal, but they usually won't admit that they themselves have ever gone to a prostitute: "Yeah, it should be legal, and I have no...”
“They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement.”
“In 1939, Hitler expanded the German Navy and, in violation of the Munich Agreement, occupied parts of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. Germany then established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Mor...”
“I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.”
“I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.”
“...and of course reconcilliation with England--the country that from the first should have been, given her parallel territorial ambitions, our closest ally--so that some day in the future we can ac...”
“And the German society of eighty million people had been shielded against reality and factuality by exactly the same means, the same self-deception, lies, and stupidity that had now become engraine...”
“I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds...”
“Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs vital organs the wrong color.”
“And then came a damp, cold night in Flanders, through which we marched in silence, and when the day began to emerge from the mists, suddenly an iron greeting came whizzing at us over our heads, and...”
“But neither will anyone ask us whether we will it or do not will it when the spiritual strength of the West fails and the West starts to come apart at the seams, when this moribund pseudocivilizati...”
“You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany”
“Socialism does not mean getting together in a parliament and passing laws, socialism means for us overthrowing the ruling classes with all the brutality [loud laughter] that the proletariat is capa...”
“Let us put Germany so to speak in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.”
“We Germans will never produce another Goethe but we may produce another Caesar.”
