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 want because nobody cares about it. But at that time, they cared very much about what… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
A Western writer came up to me and said, how come nobody at this demonstration spoke of German unity? I told him, because it isn't on the agenda. People were interested in having another, better GDR, another, better socialism. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
