My German Question Quotes

“sullen earnestness, their authoritarianism, their self-conceit, and their vicious political ideas.”
― Peter Gay, My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

“It reduced the press, we have seen, to a lackey’s docility until the media essentially served only to distribute government handouts and the kind of cringing propaganda they called editorials.”
― Peter Gay, My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

“But we were Germans; the gangsters who had taken control of the country were not Germany—we were.”
― Peter Gay, My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

“What does the ideal Aryan look like? As tall as Goebbels, as slim as Göring, as blond as Hitler.”
― Peter Gay, My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

“Hitler had ordered a bloodbath among old followers and imagined rivals, some of them his lieutenants for years. The most spectacular victim of the purge was Ernst Röhm, head of the brown-shirted S.A., who, with other longtime political allies, was shot to death that day or the next.”
― Peter Gay, My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

“mixing cajolery with lies, threats, and violence. The Reichstag fire provided them with apparently good reasons for pushing through an emergency decree,”
― Peter Gay, My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

“If my father could not abide Christianity, he had no objections to individual Christians.”
― Peter Gay, My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin