If it were possible for any nation to fathom another people's bitter experience through a book, how much easier its future fate would become and how many calamities and mistakes it could avoid. But it is very difficult. There always is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.'Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.

Erano queste le nostre camere della morte. Ci mancava il gas per fare le camere a gas.

You know who dies first, the guy who licks our bowls and puts his faith in the sick bay, or squeals to the godfather.