The Girls in the Attic Quotes

“Germans, had been deluded by a strident call to patriotism, and had become the weapon of an evil government with fearsome ambitions. He’d believed in Hitler’s ranting. He’d believed the potent, endless propaganda spewed out by Dr Goebbels. It had blinded him to the truth. It had been persuasive, but it had been a sham, a lie. And now Germany faced a reckoning for the terrible things it had done. The Thousand Year Reich, which had lasted eleven years so far, was not going to give in without a bloodbath.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“Heidi,”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“Where men burn books, they will also in the end burn men.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“To understand the past, you need to speak the language of the past.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“Why do some Germans become Nazis, and others resist?’ ‘You know the answer, darling,’ Heidi said, putting her arm around Lola. ‘A few are monsters, the rest look away.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“Our Father in Heaven,’ she said, ‘comfort the souls that have departed with divine peace, and take them unto You. Grant their bodies soft and quiet rest in the earth till the Last Day, when You will reunite body and soul and lead them into heavenly joy there.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“The heart always finds a way.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“expectantly,”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“It’s how it all begins. “You Jews” this, “you Jews” that. And when you have lumped all Jews together, you can justify anything you do to them. There are no longer good Jews, bad Jews, clever Jews, stupid Jews, old Jews, young Jews. There are just Jews. But I am a German, just like you, whether you like it or not.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“his years of war: an utter helplessness in the face of this monstrous violence.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“Heloise”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“the black loaf that was the only bread available nowadays, named pumpernickel because it filled one with wind.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic