“Security, the dignity we loved, were nowhere. So ugliness boiled up within us and resentment at the outer world which we were told was responsible for our catastrophes. The Germans in their pride and their despair began to make a… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“And with the inflation our inner system disintegrated utterly. Fortunes disappeared overnight. Money that one day would have meant lifelong security, on the next would not buy a loaf of bread. Workmen were paid daily and carried their baskets of… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“One of them, the wide clear current of Christianity, has provided the smooth underlying stream of history for nineteen hundred years, and nations and… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“At the time of my matriculation at Berlin political issues were in an uproar. One professor after another was attacking the Republic for its… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“But also it is not only expedient, there is something more, a feeling that we of Germany have found our destiny and that the… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“I will tell you what I believe,” he said with simplicity. “I am an artist, and I believe that art is something that comes… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“There must have been a number of ballots marked ‘no,’” he said. “But if there were, they were simply discarded. Only the ‘yes’ ballots… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“Then one day the entire student body was summoned to a meeting, where we were to be addressed by Bernhard Rust, the grade-school teacher… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“All right, Father. Those are their aims, of course. But can’t you see that the Nazis are not promoting them in any such rational… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“The strange thing about Karl Hoffmann’s story is that it is a story of the defeat of the tremendous Nazi force, inside of Germany.… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“stood one day by the river on a dock where the ships came in, and all at once I found myself thinking, “If I… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“Alas, Max, this will pain you, I know, but you must realize the truth. There are movements far bigger than the men who make… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“This was in the year 1937. There was no escaping the fast-moving trend of events. There was not even an opportunity to protest against… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“There was a fetid atmosphere throughout the cities of Germany during the postwar years that laid its breath on all of the generation who… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
