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A Death in Vienna (Gabriel Allon, #4) QUOTES

A Death in Vienna (Gabriel Allon, #4) QUOTES

1 " The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German. "

― Daniel Silva , A Death in Vienna (Gabriel Allon, #4)

2 " Shema, Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad! "

― Daniel Silva , A Death in Vienna (Gabriel Allon, #4)

3 " Aloïs Hudal was an Austrian native, an anti-Semite, and a fervent Nazi. He used his position as rector of the Pontificio Santa Maria dell’Anima, the German seminary in Rome, to help hundreds of SS officers escape justice, including Franz Stangl, the commandant of Treblinka. "

― Daniel Silva , A Death in Vienna (Gabriel Allon, #4)

4 " Within a month, five hundred Jews had chosen to kill themselves rather than face another day of torment, including a family of four who lived next door to the Kleins. “They shot themselves, one at a time,” Klein said. “I lay in my bed and listened to the whole thing. A shot, followed by sobs. Another shot, more sobs. After the fourth shot, there was no one left to cry, no one but me. "

― Daniel Silva , A Death in Vienna (Gabriel Allon, #4)

5 " The sky was a dome of pale blue streaked with alabaster. Crossing the Stephansplatz, he was nearly toppled by the wind. It was an Arctic wind, chilled by the fjords and glaciers of Norway, strengthened by the icy plains of Poland, and now it was hammering against the gates of Vienna like a barbarian horde. "

― Daniel Silva , A Death in Vienna (Gabriel Allon, #4)

6 " It was stolen from the Jews on the way to the gas chambers, and I want it back. "

― Daniel Silva , A Death in Vienna (Gabriel Allon, #4)

7 " Five Chimneys, by Olga Lengyel, "

― Daniel Silva , A Death in Vienna (Gabriel Allon, #4)