Goodnight From Paris Quotes

“he intended to do and then put his plan into operation. And the statesmen of the world continue to say, ‘He doesn’t really mean it! It doesn’t make sense.”
― Jane Healey, Goodnight From Paris

“I think it’s one of the most incredible stories in history that a man could sit down and write in advance—as Hitler did in Mein Kampf—exactly what”
― Jane Healey, Goodnight From Paris

“Yes,” she said. “And now the world knows that Hitler is a madman. But I think I was kicked out of Germany because I called him an ordinary man, a small man who lifts his finger when he drinks his tea. And calling Hitler ordinary is a crime against the reigning cult in Germany that says he’s a messiah sent by God to save the German people.”
― Jane Healey, Goodnight From Paris

“On November seventh of the prior year, a Jewish teenager named Herschel Grynzspan had walked into the German embassy in Paris and assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a Nazi working there. Grynzspan had said it was in retaliation for the deportation of his family in Germany to Poland. Two days later, the Nazis used Grynzspan’s criminal act as a pretext for a night of horrific violence against Jews in Germany. It had since become known as Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass.”
― Jane Healey, Goodnight From Paris

“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
― Jane Healey, Goodnight From Paris

“Maréchal Philippe Pétain, the current vice premier, is about to take power as president of the republic.” “Pétain?” I said. “How old is he?” “Eighty-four,” Jean said, shaking his head in disbelief. Pétain was an icon in France, a revered hero of the Great War who had recently served as ambassador to Spain. “Yes, he is an old man,” Bedaux said. “He has a small circle advising him, and it’s rumored they are calling all the shots, given his age.”
― Jane Healey, Goodnight From Paris

“In the words of St. Benedict, it is easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission”
― Jane Healey, Goodnight From Paris

“Dorothy Thompson was one of America’s most prominent international journalists. She had famously interviewed Hitler for Cosmopolitan magazine and had been warning the world about the dangers of the Nazi regime in Germany since the early thirties.”
― Jane Healey, Goodnight From Paris

“It took much more than a pretty face to achieve the level of success in Hollywood that I had. It had taken grit and perseverance and brains to claw my way so close to the top. And if I could make it in Hollywood, I had no doubt I could handle a broadcasting job in a dingy radio studio in Paris.”
― Jane Healey, Goodnight From Paris

“Though just beneath the gorgeous facade lurked the palpable tension of a city whose citizens were on edge, clutching their gas masks everywhere they went.”
― Jane Healey, Goodnight From Paris