Dead of Night Quotes

“We should not be so complacent as to assume that what happened in Nazi Germany could not be replicated somewhere else at another time.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“It was hard to live in a country where her people’s citizenship, property and almost every civic right had been stolen from them.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“Hitler decides what is within the law these days. No one can question him. If he has approved the programme, there is nothing that can be done to stop it.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“Lawyers, eh? They’re a nuisance at the best of times. Worse when they get a bee in their bonnet about pursuing justice.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“There will be a reckoning for the evil that is being done, but I fear that won’t come for some time. Months . . . years . . . who can say? In which case, it is our duty to survive and bear witness.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“We were ordered to carry out the killings. We were acting on behalf of the state. They were mercy killings. The Führer himself said they were lives not worth living. We were acting on his orders. I swear it.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“If ideology became a licence to murder then how could there be any moral justification of such an ideology?”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“And who will be the first to speak up if we have all consigned ourselves to the cowardice of silence? People need to know that they are not alone in opposing the party if those who truly love Germany are ever to rise up on the day that the regime is vulnerable.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“I am not saying things will not change. But for now, the party’s hold on power is absolute, and they will destroy those who challenge them. If their grasp weakens and there is a real chance to depose them, then and only then is it reasonable to speak up.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“One rule for them and another for us, Schenke reflected. As was always the case when there was no one to hold a regime to account.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“It’s a wonder that such things can be said and so many people accept them without a thought. It’s like the party is some fanatical religious cult and Hitler is their prophet, preaching that faith is stronger than fact.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night