The Scholl Case Quotes

“No one could imagine that he has killed his wife, he was the former mayor of Ludwigsfelde, an honourable man. And yet here in the courtroom you often get to know sides of a person that no one could previously have conceived possible.”
― Anja Reich-Osang, The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage

“Scholl, she says, could manipulate people, win them over to his side and implicate them in his arguments like key witnesses.”
― Anja Reich-Osang, The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage

“History is complicated, lives are complicated. The prison is a reminder of that, an unintentional monument.”
― Anja Reich-Osang, The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage

“He wanted to be left in peace, and she wanted to show everyone that her world was still intact. That was their arrangement - a ceasefire after forty-six years of marriage.”
― Anja Reich-Osang, The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage

“He worked all day long, he earned his money and still he felt like a failure. It was as if he'd moved back in with his mother.”
― Anja Reich-Osang, The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage