Book Quote by 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.”

Stefan Heym

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A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

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You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

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I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead…

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I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his…

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People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where…

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I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop…

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Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

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I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were…

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And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a…

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The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

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I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

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In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.

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