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My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin QUOTES

My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin QUOTES

1 " What does the ideal Aryan look like? As tall as Goebbels, as slim as Göring, as blond as Hitler. "

― Peter Gay , My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

2 " If my father could not abide Christianity, he had no objections to individual Christians. "

― Peter Gay , My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

3 " But we were Germans; the gangsters who had taken control of the country were not Germany—we were. "

― Peter Gay , My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

4 " mixing cajolery with lies, threats, and violence. The Reichstag fire provided them with apparently good reasons for pushing through an emergency decree, "

― Peter Gay , My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

5 " Hitler had ordered a bloodbath among old followers and imagined rivals, some of them his lieutenants for years. The most spectacular victim of the purge was Ernst Röhm, head of the brown-shirted S.A., who, with other longtime political allies, was shot to death that day or the next. "

― Peter Gay , My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

6 " It reduced the press, we have seen, to a lackey’s docility until the media essentially served only to distribute government handouts and the kind of cringing propaganda they called editorials. "

― Peter Gay , My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

7 " sullen earnestness, their authoritarianism, their self-conceit, and their vicious political ideas. "

― Peter Gay , My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin