“the Nazis first and the Soviets later made efforts to direct responsibility for the killing of the Jews to the countries they… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“changes. It was the deliberate policy of Nazi Germany to artificially create conditions of state destruction and then steer the consequences towards… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The anticipatory obedience of Austrians in March 1938 taught the high Nazi leadership what was possible.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Double collaboration was noticed by Jews and Poles in these places, but is absent in both Ukrainian and German histories of the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Nazi storm troopers began as a security detail clearing the halls of Hitler’s opponents during his rallies. As” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“When the Holocaust is blamed on the modern state, the weakening of state authority appears salutary.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The racist and colonial idea that the Holocaust began as an elemental explosion of primitive antisemitism arose as Nazi propaganda and apologetics.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“One of the errors of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the belief that regime change must be creative. The theory was… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“That November, German authorities held parliamentary elections (without opposition) and a referendum (on an issue where the “correct” answer was known) to… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“...But this number, like all the others, must be seen not as 5.7 million, which is an abstraction few of us can… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The likelihood that Jews would be sent to their deaths depended upon the durability of institutions of state sovereignty and the continuity… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“philological training against Nazi propaganda. He noticed how Hitler’s language rejected legitimate opposition: The people always meant some people and not others… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Separated from National Socialism by time and luck, we find it easy to dismiss Nazi ideas without contemplating how they functioned. Our… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The word "Auschwitz" has become a metonym for the Holocaust as a whole. Yet the vast majority of Jews had already been… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“It was in Poland that the Einsatzgruppen were to fulfill their mission as “ideological soldiers” by eliminating the educated classes of a… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Victor Klemperer, a literary scholar of Jewish origin, turned his philological training against Nazi propaganda. He noticed how Hitler’s language rejected legitimate… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“If the Holocaust is reduced to Auschwitz, then it can easily be forgotten that the German mass killing of Jews began in… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“We share Hitler's planet and several of his preoccupations; we have changed less than we think. We like our living space, we… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Auschwitz has also become the standard shorthand of the Holocaust because, when treated in a certain mythical and reductive way, it seems… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“In October 1941, Mahilue became teh first substantial city in occupied Soviet Belarus where almost all Jews were killed. A German (Austrian)… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Political calculation and local suffering do not entirely explain the participation in these pogroms. Violence against Jews served to bring the Germans… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“In the euphoria of victory, Nazis tried to organize a boycott of Jewish shops. This was not very successful at first. But… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“This was a particularly spectacular example of the German campaign to gather forced labor in the East, which had begun with the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“In the Great Terror in the Soviet Union, NKVD officers recorded 682,691 executions of supposed enemies of the state, most of them… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“If we believe that the Holocaust was a result of the inherent characteristics of Jews, Germans, Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, or anyone else,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Hitler had used an act of terror, an event of limited inherent significance, to institute a regime of terror that killed millions… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Like Hitler, the President used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking and presented journalism as a… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“no stereotype can explain why and how, in the six months after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a technique to… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!” Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes: “Nay, come,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We imbibed the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“As she observed, “the first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Once we subliminally accept that we are watching a reality show rather than thinking about real life, no image can actually hurt the president… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Extremism' certainly sounds bad, and governments often try to make it sound worse by using the word 'terrorism' in the same sentence. But the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
