I Sleep in Hitler's Room Quotes

“The intellectual Western world today preaches only one thing: tolerance. That’s all they have to sell. Everybody is wonderful, and that’s it. All cultures are great, end of story. What they think, deep down, you can’t really tell. Maybe, just a possibility, deep down they think nothing. Maybe deep down is just an empty hole. Tolerance is the code, the flag. And that’s it. But”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, I Sleep in Hitler's Room

“Then, one day they decided to give him a uniform. He got a hat that had ‘Guard’ on it. From the moment he put that on his head, he changed. He became rude, aggressive, and he chased people. He changed. Totally. They should never have given him the hat. You couldn’t talk to him anymore. He used to be a nice man and now he became a rude man. This is ‘German.’ Something happens to us the moment we wear uniform. I can’t explain this.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, I Sleep in Hitler's Room

“me. I hate the Germans. Hate them, their big masks, their endless discussions, their constant preaching, their implicit or explicit Jew hating, their lack of spine, their exact ways, their exact lies, their stubbornness, their hidden racism, their constant need to be loved and congratulated, and their self-proclaimed Righteousness.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, I Sleep in Hitler's Room

“I continue eating and drinking for two or three hours. Why not? This is my gym for today, exercising my mouth muscles.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, I Sleep in Hitler's Room