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- Lauren B. Grossman
"Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers."
- Diane Ackerman
"On Good Friday last year the SS found some pretext to punish 60 priests with an hour on "the tree." That is the mildest camp punishment. They tie a man's hands together behind his back, palms facing o..."
- Jean Bernard
"The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But this time the torture surpassed the bounds of the endurable. At the same t..."
"There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power."
- Vasily Grossman
"At the entrance of the Führerbunker, a dandelion pushed through the crack between cobblestones. The cadet did not notice that he stepped on it as they entered the bunker. A dark cloud of smoke rose fr..."
- Paul Majkut
"The greatest miracle was that in the end I could actually feel pity for those men because they were so deluded: they thought they had power and really they had nothing. I will never forget it. And fro..."
- Diet Eman
"The shock which the Nazi horrors produced was so great, because they came after two hundred years of Roussellian propaganda about the goodness of human nature and also because the Germans were literat..."
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
"The opposite of Nazi is neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative or liberal. Totalitarianism's diametric opposite of is Libertarianism."
- A.E. Samaan
"I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day."
- Primo Levi