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Het parfum; De geschiedenis van een moordenaar by Patrick Süskind

Het lijden van de jonge Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dutch translations of German books

120 books — 14 voters

Red, White, and Drunk All Over by Natalie MacLean

Hope in the Valley by Penelope Bourdillon

Best Wine Books

121 books — 126 voters

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

Novels Set in Germany

422 books — 200 voters

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

When Secrets Bloom by Patricia Furstenberg

Paul & Kiki's Guide to Vacationing in Italy by Paul Stuart

Adventure Travel & Exploration In Europe

129 books — 109 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

German History

598 books — 157 voters

WWI: The Great War (Historical Fiction)

595 books — 411 voters

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“ So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend's child, or in order to have a debate with the faithful. (When I was to be wed, I chose a rabbi named Robert Goldburg, an Einsteinian and a Shakespearean and a Spinozist, who had married Arthur Miller to Marilyn Monroe and had a copy of Marilyn’s conversion certificate. He conducted the ceremony in Victor and Annie Nava So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend's child, or in order to have a debate with the faithful. (When I was to be wed, I chose a rabbi named Robert Goldburg, an Einsteinian and a Shakespearean and a Spinozist, who had married Arthur Miller to Marilyn Monroe and had a copy of Marilyn’s conversion certificate. He conducted the ceremony in Victor and Annie Navasky's front room, with David Rieff and Steve Wasserman as my best of men.) I wanted to do something to acknowledge, and to knit up, the broken continuity between me and my German-Polish forebears. When I am traveling, I will stop at the shul if it is in a country where Jews are under threat, or dying out, or were once persecuted. This has taken me down queer and sad little side streets in Morocco and Tunisia and Eritrea and India, and in Damascus and Budapest and Prague and Istanbul, more than once to temples that have recently been desecrated by the new breed of racist Islamic gangster. (I have also had quite serious discussions, with Iraqi Kurdish friends, about the possibility of Jews genuinely returning in friendship to the places in northern Iraq from which they were once expelled.) I hate the idea that the dispossession of one people should be held hostage to the victimhood of another, as it is in the Middle East and as it was in Eastern Europe. But I find myself somehow assuming that Jewishness and 'normality' are in some profound way noncompatible. The most gracious thing said to me when I discovered my family secret was by Martin, who after a long evening of ironic reflection said quite simply: 'Hitch, I find that I am a little envious of you.' I choose to think that this proved, once again, his appreciation for the nuances of risk, uncertainty, ambivalence, and ambiguity. These happen to be the very things that 'security' and 'normality,' rather like the fantasy of salvation, cannot purchase. ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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“ My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people. ”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

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