Children of Nazis Quotes

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― Tania Crasnianski, Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous; more dangerous are the common men.”
― Tania Crasnianski, Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others-Living with a Fathers Monstrous Legacy

“Not long after starting in this new job, she got drunk with the store’s manager and told him that her father was none other than Rudolf Höss, the Kommandant of Auschwitz. The manager relayed the information to the store’s owners, who were German Jews who had emigrated to the United States after Kristallnacht in 1938. They chose not to fire Brigitte who, in their estimation, had committed no crime herself.”
― Tania Crasnianski, Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

“He was trained to exterminate, then count the dead with a maniacal obsession for numbers and industrial-quality efficiency.”
― Tania Crasnianski, Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

“It often happens that children bear the wrongs of their parents, when a wrong has been committed and the children are aware of it. They carry the emotional weight of their pain and shame, but not the responsibility for the wrong. It is often the same for parents, when their children commit a wrong; the parents are not responsible, even if the errors of children can surely be attributed to the parents’ education of their children.14”
― Tania Crasnianski, Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

“It was Bormann who advocated imposing even stricter limits on the Church’s authority, in alignment with the views of Hitler who lamented Christianity’s weakness: “You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity, with its meekness and flabbiness!”
― Tania Crasnianski, Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy