" We analyzed Hitler's speeches alliteration by alliteration, tautology by tautology, neologism by neologism. We learned that our language was once poetic, but now potentially dangerous. We read Schiller but didn't learn to love him as we loved Shakespeare. We struck the German words for hero, victory, battle and pride from our vocabularies. We used the word Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl, the sense of identifying with a group and believing in an idea larger than oneself, when defining American cultural identity, but not our own. "

― Nora Krug , Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home