{"quotes":[{"text":"My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.”I exploded:“What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily:“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.","author":"Elie Wiesel","tags":["death","genocide","germany","history","hitler","holocaust","jews"],"id":2109,"author_id":"Elie+Wiesel"},{"text":"Of course it was not only the law that interfered with our management of the paper. The politicians, too, soon took a hand. The Oberpräsident of Schleswig-Holstein, a man named Kürbis (which is German for pumpkin) forbad its publication; it appeared the next day, entitled Die Westküste [The West Coat]. This too was banned, and for a short time my brother's wish was fulfilled and we edited Die Grüne Front. I, too, had the gratification of seeing my original suggestion realised whn it became, in due course, Die Sturmglocke. Finally, the Oberpräsident forbad us from publishing any paper at all which was not purely concerned with technical agricultural matters. So we rechristened it Der Kürbis, aand the leading article consisted of variations on the subject of pumpking as given in the encyclopaedia; we expatiated on how pumkins flourish best in plenty of dung and on the disagreeable nature of their blossom's scwent. Thenceforth the paper resumed its original name of Das Landvolk and that was that.","author":"Ernst von Salomon","tags":["censorship","germany","history","weimar-republic"],"id":4144,"author_id":"Ernst+von+Salomon"},{"text":"Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.","author":"Erich Maria Remarque","tags":["all-quiet-on-the-western-front","germany","indignation","inspirational","literature","reality","soldiers","truth","war","west","world-war","world-war-2"],"id":9534,"author_id":"Erich+Maria+Remarque"},{"text":"The only thing worse than his arrogance was his incompetence. He was a bully, behaving like an ass. I saw Angel though, not him. The memorial was right there, just outside the window. It’s in the flowers, and it makes me angry. Angel liked to sit on the couch, watch TV, eat chips. She hated outside. Maybe I should have been a bully and an ass to Angel’s parents. Maybe Angel and Grace would still be alive if I’d behaved like this piece of shit teacher.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["9-11","9-11-01","afghanistan","dodds","education","germany","iraq","korea","military","terrorism","tucker-elliot"],"id":9954,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"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.' He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months.There was no anger or reproach.It was Papa who spoke.How did it look?'Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' he said. 'They burned by eyes.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["germany","stars","wwii"],"id":12198,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"On April 1, armed SA men took up positions in front of Jewish businesses and tried to prevent customers from spending money in them. Some troops painted anti-Semitic slogans and Stars of David on display windows; others were content to hold up signs calling for a boycott and to curse at Jewish businessmen. Some areas also saw looting and acts of violence.All in all, this display of activism made a very negative impression on most people, and the thuggish SA men with their uneducated bellowing were left even less popular among the general population than they had been before. Although very few Germans openly declared their solidarity with their Jewish fellow citizens, the boycott did not, as it was intended to do, set German gentiles against German Jews. On the contrary, ordinary people felt sorry for them, and if reports by the Nazis, who were disappointed by the boycott, are to be believed, the amount of commerce done afterward by Jewish-owned business did not decline at all.","author":"Rudolph Herzog","tags":["anti-semitism","germany","history","nazi","third-reich"],"id":19543,"author_id":"Rudolph+Herzog"},{"text":"Germany is our fatherland Europe is our future. ","author":"Helmut Kohl","tags":["europe","germany","fatherland "],"id":20008,"author_id":"Helmut+Kohl"},{"text":"Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible for British colonies, had been honored by an invitation from Kaiser Wilhelm II to attend the annual maneuvers of the Imperial German Army, held at Breslau. The Kaiser was 'resplendent in the uniform of the White Silesian Cuirassiers' and his massed and regimented infantry...Strange to find Winston Churchill and Sylvia Plath both choosing the word 'roller,' in both its juggernaut and wavelike declensions, for that scene.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["1906","british-empire","british-overseas-territories","cars","cavalry","churchill","englishness","german-army","german-empire","germany","infantry","kaiser","kaiser-wilhelm-ii","poetry","silesia","sylvia-plath","upper-silesia","war","wroclaw"],"id":20186,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"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 engrained in Eichmann's mentality. These lies changed from year to year, and they frequently contradicted each other; moreover, they were not necessarily the same for the various branches of the Party hierarchy or the people at large. But the practice of self-deception had become so common, almost a moral prerequisite for survival, that even now, eighteen years after the collapse of the Nazi regime, when most of the specific content of its lies has been forgotten, it is sometimes difficult not to believe that mendacity has become an integral part of the German national character.","author":"Hannah Arendt","tags":["germany","lies","mendacity","nazism","self-deception","stupidity"],"id":32609,"author_id":"Hannah+Arendt"},{"text":"In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["9-11","9-11-10th-anniversary","afghanistan","dodds","education","germany","iraq","korea","military","terrorism","tucker-elliot"],"id":34442,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":121,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}