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> [And also, of course, I knew that the German people, they're one, and would tend to consider themselves as one; and therefore they would consider the Wall as an enforced imprisonment. And I was right in thinking that way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/and-also-of-course-i-knew-that-the-german-people-they-re-one-and/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

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## Other authors on German People

## More by Stefan Heym

> [A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/a-great-number-of-people-in-the-east-german-parts-had-been-nazis-so/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/show-me-one-place-where-a-whole-government-is-concerned-with-a-book/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/you-must-have-if-socialism-was-to-succeed-a-socialism-with-lots-of/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/i-not-only-saw-the-possibility-of-nuclear-war-i-feared-it-very-much/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/i-defended-myself-at-the-first-opportunity-i-had-which-was-a-meeting/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/people-who-were-not-active-in-the-intellectual-life-of-the-country/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/i-certainly-hoped-that-in-the-eastern-part-of-germany-what-was-just/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/even-in-west-germany-in-the-beginning-people-wanted-a-kind-of/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/i-did-not-oppose-unification-i-knew-unification-would-have-to-come/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/and-of-course-in-west-germany-they-made-every-effort-that-people-who/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/the-wall-was-the-actual-symbol-of-a-defeat-of-inferiority/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/i-was-in-psychological-warfare-in-world-war-ii-so-i-know/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/in-the-question-of-peace-people-spoke-up-and-demonstrated-for-peace/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/if-you-live-in-a-system-that-is-suppressive-you-don-t-walk-upright/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [Today, when we live in a what is called Western democracy here... you're not taken seriously all the time. You can write what you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/today-when-we-live-in-a-what-is-called-western-democracy-here-you-re/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

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