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The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory

The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George

Royal Fiction

368 books — 195 voters

Hitler's Valkyrie by David R.L. Litchfield

Nazi/Third Reich Women

92 books — 15 voters

Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German Classics

195 books — 135 voters

Best German Authors

524 books — 748 voters

Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Fantasy - Beyond the English Language

344 books — 121 voters

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Young and Damned and Fair by Gareth Russell

Sesam nieuwe/geïllustreerde wereldgeschiedenis. Deel 16 by Carl Gustav Grimberg

Roman Numerals

33 books — 7 voters

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“ [Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism:] Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the implementation of the work of Charles Darwin is a filthy slander, undeserving of you and an insult to this audience. Darwin’s thought was not taught in Germany; Darwinism was so derided in Germany along w [Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism:] Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the implementation of the work of Charles Darwin is a filthy slander, undeserving of you and an insult to this audience. Darwin’s thought was not taught in Germany; Darwinism was so derided in Germany along with every other form of unbelief that all the great modern atheists, Darwin, Einstein and Freud were alike despised by the National Socialist regime. Now, just to take the most notorious of the 20th century totalitarianisms – the most finished example, the most perfected one, the most ruthless and refined one: that of National Socialism, the one that fortunately allowed the escape of all these great atheists, thinkers and many others, to the United States, a country of separation of church and state, that gave them welcome – if it’s an atheistic regime, then how come that in the first chapter of Mein Kampf, that Hitler says that he’s doing God’s work and executing God’s will in destroying the Jewish people? How come the fuhrer oath that every officer of the Party and the Army had to take, making Hitler into a minor god, begins, “I swear in the name of almighty God, my loyalty to the Fuhrer?” How come that on the belt buckle of every Nazi soldier it says Gott mit uns, God on our side? How come that the first treaty made by the Nationalist Socialist dictatorship, the very first is with the Vatican? It’s exchanging political control of Germany for Catholic control of German education. How come that the church has celebrated the birthday of the Fuhrer every year, on that day until democracy put an end to this filthy, quasi-religious, superstitious, barbarous, reactionary system? Again, this is not a difference of emphasis between us. To suggest that there’s something fascistic about me and about my beliefs is something I won't hear said and you shouldn't believe. ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens

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“ I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going. ”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

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