274 Quotes About Germany

They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement.

… 在那些比較感性、隨波逐流、思想比較單純的人群當中，還普遍出現了一種較原始的神祕主義想法。那就彷彿一個被擊敗的部落拋棄自己乏善可陳的部落神祇，轉而信奉敵對部落的神明，將之做為自己的保護神。長久以來為人所信奉的聖馬克思並無助益，聖希特勒顯然要來得更為有力。於是我們把祭壇上的聖馬克思像搗毀，把聖希特勒的神像供奉上去。讓我們重新學習祈禱的方法，將「一切都是資本家的錯」更改為「一切都是猶太人的錯」。或許這麼一來我們就可以得到救贖。

If I die anytime soon, you make sure they bury me right.

I am a direct descendant of Adolf (sometimes spelled Adolph) Herrmann Lothar Gosling, born in Osnabrück, appointed Consul General in New YorkCity for the Kingdom of Hanover by King George V of Hanover.

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.

... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.

I wonder" he wrote, "if the day will ever come that the loveliest of hymns, Silent Night, will come into the minds of the people throughout the world to express the German heart. I belive it is the expression of the heart of many Germans...[and]of most people throughout the world. That is the appalling tragedy of all that we witness today" Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King in his diary during WWII during German occupation of the Netherlands.

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