“These are the only important men, the doers. And here in Germany a doer has risen. A vital man is changing things. The whole tide of a people’s life changes in a minute because the man of action has come.… — 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
“In such an atmosphere discussion filled all of our time that was not spent over our books. The professors held open house at their… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“So, when a young German cleric, who had fled religious persecution in the Fatherland to seek asylum in the New World, wished to tell… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“All political discussion is forbidden,” he snapped. “What price our free citizenship now?” said one of the boys to me as the group broke… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
