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E. d B. edited the memorable quotes of War and Remembrance Saturday, July 2, 2011.
- Added a quotation: “p. 1089: <wondering how the camp commander, Rahm, will keep visitors from seeing the truth of camp life> . . . "is this whole Beautification just a master instance, a paradigm, of the idiot thoroughness which has characterized what the Germans have done since Hitler took power? Para. In their ability to get things done, their energy, their attention to detail, their sheer scientific and industrial prowess, they equal and perhaps surpass the Americans. Moreover, they are capable of the greatest charm, intelligence, and taste. It is their peculiarity as a people that with no reservations, with whole hearts, with singular elan, they can throw themselves into the executing of plans and orders crazy or monstrous beyond previous human conceptions."”Aaron Jastrow, April 1944, describing the Beautification of Theresienstadt
- Added a quotation: “p. 1093The German has never been quite at home in Christian Europe, has never quite made up his mind whether he is Vandal or Roman, the destroyer from the north or the comme il faut Western man. He oscillates, vacillates, plays the one or the other role, as historic circumstances change. To the Vandal in him, Christian compunction and British and French liberalism are nonsense; the reason and logic of the Enlightenment are a veneer over real human nature; destruction and dominance are the thing; slaughter is an ancient joy. After centuries of Lutheran restraint, the rude rough German voice bellowed forth once again, in Nietzsche, radical revulsion from Christianity's mock tenets. Quite accurately Nietzsche blamed all this kindness and compunction on Judaism. Quite accurately he foretold the coming death of the Christian God. What he failed to foresee was that the freed Vandal, in lunatic industrialized vengeance, would set out to nail eleven million Christs to the cross."”Aaron Jastrow, April 1944, writing about "bottomless lack of compunction" of the Germans
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E. d B. edited the memorable quotes of War and Remembrance Saturday, July 2, 2011.
- Added a quotation: “The United States of America has been a lucky nation, and this luck had held remarkably on June 4, 1942. How long it will hold in the future, only the dark gods know who bestowed on this crass mercantile nation of mongrelized blood and cowboy culture a virgin continent with almost infinite natural resources.”Armin von Roon, writing about the Battle of Midway
- Added a quotation: “p. 511 "Scientists have never played with such big chips."”Palmer Kirby, speaking with Harrison Peters about the bomb
- Added a quotation: “p. 521: "Your country baffles me: a luxurious unharmed lotus land in which great hordes of handsome dynamic people either wallow in deep gloom, or play like overexcited children, or fall to work like all the devils in hell, while the press steadily drones detestation of the government and despair of the system. I don't understand how America works, any more than Frances Trollope or Dickens did, but it's an ongoing miracle of sorts."”Pamela Tudsbury, writing to Victor Henry
- Added a quotation: “p. 577: "Yet the warmongering President had only a half-trained expanding army of green recruits, led by an unblooded officer cadre. Civilian morale was unstable. Mild rationing ordinances brought wails of protest; austerities that we Germans had been taking for granted for years seemed to the spoiled Americans the end of the world. What was worse--and this was fundamental, and Roosevelt knew it--like the Italians, the American people were incapable of accepting substantial battle losses. This fact shaped all of Franklin Roosevelt's war decisions, including the North African landing. Para. Roosevelt's solution of his problems can be starkly stated. The formula that won world empire for the U.S.A. was twofold: 1. Germany first. 2. Shed German blood by shedding the blood of others.”Armin von Roon, Global Waterloo
- Added a quotation: “pp. 801-802: <Dr. R.> "asks me to picture the Ku Klux Klan seizing power in the United States. That is what has happened to Germany, he says. The Nazi Party is an enormous German Ku Klux Klan. He points to the dramatic use of fire rituals at night, the anti-Semitism, the bizarre uniforms, the bellicose know-nothing hatred of liberal ideas and of foreigners and so forth. I rejoined that the Klan is a mere lunatic splinter group, not a major party capable of governing the nation. Then he cited the Klan of Reconstruction days, a respectable widespread movement which many of the leading Southerners joined; also the role of the modern Klan in the Democratic politics of the twenties. Para. Extremism, he says, is the universal tuberculosis of modern society: a world infection of resentment and hatred generated by rapid change and the breakdown of old values. In the stabler nations the tubercules are sealed off in scar tissue, and these are the harmless lunatic movements."”Aaron Jastrow, Feb. 26, 1943, writing from internment in Baden-Baden
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