#german

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time. ↗

— W. G. Sebald

#before #better #eyes #forget #germany

I do recall hearing a conversation in our home in Strausberg, between my mother and my father, where my mother sounded very angry that my cousin had let the Rödels down by having to be dragged out of Oma’s house, crying for his mother and shouting that he did not want to return to the war in Russia. Like a great many other soldiers throughout that period, he died in Russia on 5 May, 1944. He was just twenty years of age, and is buried somewhere in that country. ↗

— Alfred Nestor

#alfred-nestor #author-alfred-nestor #hitler #hitler-s-germany #nazi-party

The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that's Poetic Justice. ↗

— "Irish" Wayne Kelly

#boxing #german #irish #wayne-kelly #wayne-l-kelly

Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers. ↗

— "Irish" Wayne Kelly

#boxing #german #irish #wayne-kelly #wayne-l-kelly

It's ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short. ↗

— Simon Zingerman

#creativity #feel-good #good-hearted #goodness #hero

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#german #death

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end. ↗

— Sophie Scholl

#german #terror #courage

Children accept the conditions they are born into, and, to a degree, I was getting used to the bombings, fires, and death around me. I remember that I thought those things were normal. It is grown-ups who worry about things, and this ... this was total panic! I could taste the fear, and I could see that my mother was frightened, which I had never seen before, and this made me even more frightened. ↗

— Alfred Nestor

#alfred-nestor #author-alfred-nestor #children-in-war #hitler #hitler-s-germany

I was glad to be made aware that “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair), is subject to natural law, and can be made fat, by such things as poor diet, and alcohol. ↗

— Roman Payne

#au-pair #diet #germans #humor #humour

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#bombings #children #danger #england #evacuation