{"quotes":[{"text":"There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.","author":"Vasily Grossman","tags":["evil","evil-people","hollocaust","nazis"],"id":26505,"author_id":"Vasily+Grossman"},{"text":"Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned something about themselves. They know what they did or didn't do in the most morally fraught moment of their lives. They have seen themselves in extreme circumstances and, in that, they have seen their own extremes.","author":"Fern Schumer Chapman","tags":["extremes","germans","holocaust","memoir","nazis"],"id":31686,"author_id":"Fern+Schumer+Chapman"},{"text":"It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific knowledge animating the masses, but rather in a fanaticism dominating them and in a hysteria which drove them forward.","author":"Adolf Hitler","tags":["aversion","crowd-control","crowds","domination","faith","fanaticism","hatred","hitler","hypnosis","hysteria","knowledge","love","mass-suggestion","nazis","psychology","respect"],"id":53372,"author_id":"Adolf+Hitler"},{"text":"Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded daughter, I secretly envied her this. She was not the clinging-vine type, nor one who could coax sugar from a lemon. Hers was the frontal attack with no inhibitions. She told the Nazis you could not trust Hitler, and they let her go. In the days of chaperones, she hitch-hiked a ride on a French destroyer along the coast of Crete; 'All quite proper, I had my cook with me,' she explained.","author":"Mary Allsebrook","tags":["archaeologists","crete","france","harriet-boyd-hawes","nazis","self-determination","self-preservation","victorian-era","women-s-history"],"id":71073,"author_id":"Mary+Allsebrook"},{"text":"The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But this time the torture surpassed the bounds of the endurable. At the same time the thermometer hovered between 5 and 15 degrees below zero. From morning till night we scraped, shoveled, and pushed wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of snow to the brook. The work detail consisted of more than 1,000 clergymen, forced to keep moving by SS men and Capos who kicked us and beat us with truncheons.We had to make rounds with the wheelbarrows from the assembly square to the brook and back. Not a moment of rest was allowed, and much of the time we were forced to run.At one point I tripped over my barrow and fell, and it took me a while to get up again. An SS man dashed over and ordered me to turn with the full load. He ran beside me, beating me constantly with a leather strap. When I got to the brook I was not allowed to dump out the heavy snow, but had to make a second complete round with it instead.When the guard finally went off and I tried to let go of the wheelbarrow, I found that one of my hands was frozen fast to it. I had to blow on it with warm breath to get it free.","author":"Jean Bernard","tags":["catholicism","catholics","concentration-camps","good-friday","nazi-germany","nazis","nazism","priest","priesthood","priests","ss","suffering","torture"],"id":77280,"author_id":"Jean+Bernard"},{"text":"Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush?They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us -- they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis.And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["nazis","politics"],"id":84990,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.","author":"Naomi Shulman","tags":["justice","nazis","politics","protest","resistance"],"id":93914,"author_id":"Naomi+Shulman"},{"text":"Dear Artie: “The young fellow has disappeared into a dead end. I think the long-necked bastard planned to wind up in Paris and sent him there but he may also have used the underground railroad. Ask your round-heeled contact. Maybe you can find more than I could. “Roy.","author":"John Pearce","tags":["nazis","paris","world-war-ii"],"id":115227,"author_id":"John+Pearce"},{"text":"Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal of a world run by an oligarchy in possession of Teutonic genes, who may kill or enslave other 'races' according to need, is not more unrealizable than the idea that a single state, let alone the globe itself, could be governed according to the dictates of an allegedly holy book. This mad scheme begins by denying itself the talents (and the rights) of half the population, views with superstitious horror the charging of interest, and invokes the right of Muslims to subject nonbelievers to special taxes and confiscations. Not even Afghanistan or Somalia, scenes of the furthest advances yet made by pro-caliphate forces, could be governed for long in this way without setting new standards for beggary and decline.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["afghanistan","caliphate","death-of-osama-bin-laden","fascism","islam","islamic-banking","jihad","nazis","nazism","nihilism","osama-bin-laden","racism","somalia","theocracy"],"id":165709,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["germany","nazis","wishes"],"id":171345,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}