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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 914 times as germany)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,889,356 ratings — published 2005
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 565 times as germany)
avg rating 4.11 — 521,998 ratings — published 1928
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 538 times as germany)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,985,315 ratings — published 2014
The Reader (Hardcover)
by (shelved 424 times as germany)
avg rating 3.79 — 232,137 ratings — published 1995
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
by (shelved 380 times as germany)
avg rating 3.69 — 156,002 ratings — published 1774
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as germany)
avg rating 4.08 — 880,700 ratings — published 1922
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 346 times as germany)
avg rating 3.90 — 220,686 ratings — published 2011
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as germany)
avg rating 4.13 — 216,458 ratings — published 1927
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as germany)
avg rating 4.04 — 556,573 ratings — published 1985
The Magic Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 314 times as germany)
avg rating 4.13 — 62,009 ratings — published 1924
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as germany)
avg rating 4.23 — 148,833 ratings — published 1960
Every Man Dies Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as germany)
avg rating 4.27 — 37,016 ratings — published 1947
The Tin Drum (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as germany)
avg rating 3.95 — 46,801 ratings — published 1959
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 257 times as germany)
avg rating 4.20 — 35,906 ratings — published 1901
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as germany)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,560 ratings — published 2003
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as germany)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,205,505 ratings — published 1947
Death in Venice (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as germany)
avg rating 3.68 — 69,061 ratings — published 1911
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as germany)
avg rating 3.84 — 11,328 ratings — published 1929
Austerlitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as germany)
avg rating 3.98 — 26,984 ratings — published 2001
Demian (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as germany)
avg rating 4.14 — 136,367 ratings — published 1919
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as germany)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,438,800 ratings — published 1915
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as germany)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,368,196 ratings — published 1956
The Hangman's Daughter (The Hangman's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 173 times as germany)
avg rating 3.75 — 79,073 ratings — published 2008
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as germany)
avg rating 4.16 — 971,218 ratings — published 2006
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as germany)
avg rating 4.29 — 17,823 ratings — published 1953
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
by (shelved 168 times as germany)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,520 ratings — published 2003
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as germany)
avg rating 4.07 — 177,251 ratings — published 1883
The Women in the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as germany)
avg rating 3.84 — 66,296 ratings — published 2017
Faust, First Part (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as germany)
avg rating 3.83 — 86,287 ratings — published 1808
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as germany)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,473 ratings — published 2006
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as germany)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,487,348 ratings — published 1969
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as germany)
avg rating 3.70 — 18,558 ratings — published 1974
Visitation (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as germany)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,635 ratings — published 2008
Kairos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as germany)
avg rating 3.35 — 26,478 ratings — published 2021
Goodbye to Berlin (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as germany)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,323 ratings — published 1939
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as germany)
avg rating 3.68 — 199,279 ratings — published 1848
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as germany)
avg rating 4.23 — 221,508 ratings — published 1812
Narcissus and Goldmund (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as germany)
avg rating 4.22 — 73,050 ratings — published 1930
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as germany)
avg rating 3.94 — 397,714 ratings — published 1925
Doctor Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as germany)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,940 ratings — published 1947
The Clown (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as germany)
avg rating 3.93 — 32,096 ratings — published 1963
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as germany)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,528 ratings — published 2002
Go, Went, Gone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 121 times as germany)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,569 ratings — published 2015
Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as germany)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,595 ratings — published 2021
The Emigrants (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as germany)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,480 ratings — published 1992
Storm of Steel (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as germany)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,768 ratings — published 1920
Look Who's Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as germany)
avg rating 3.43 — 40,921 ratings — published 2012
Faust (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as germany)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,862 ratings — published 1808
Those Who Save Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as germany)
avg rating 4.11 — 103,616 ratings — published 2004
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as germany)
avg rating 4.06 — 32,999 ratings — published 2015
“[Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism:]
Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the implementation of the work of Charles Darwin is a filthy slander, undeserving of you and an insult to this audience. Darwin’s thought was not taught in Germany; Darwinism was so derided in Germany along with every other form of unbelief that all the great modern atheists, Darwin, Einstein and Freud were alike despised by the National Socialist regime.
Now, just to take the most notorious of the 20th century totalitarianisms – the most finished example, the most perfected one, the most ruthless and refined one: that of National Socialism, the one that fortunately allowed the escape of all these great atheists, thinkers and many others, to the United States, a country of separation of church and state, that gave them welcome – if it’s an atheistic regime, then how come that in the first chapter of Mein Kampf, that Hitler says that he’s doing God’s work and executing God’s will in destroying the Jewish people? How come the fuhrer oath that every officer of the Party and the Army had to take, making Hitler into a minor god, begins, “I swear in the name of almighty God, my loyalty to the Fuhrer?” How come that on the belt buckle of every Nazi soldier it says Gott mit uns, God on our side? How come that the first treaty made by the Nationalist Socialist dictatorship, the very first is with the Vatican? It’s exchanging political control of Germany for Catholic control of German education. How come that the church has celebrated the birthday of the Fuhrer every year, on that day until democracy put an end to this filthy, quasi-religious, superstitious, barbarous, reactionary system?
Again, this is not a difference of emphasis between us. To suggest that there’s something fascistic about me and about my beliefs is something I won't hear said and you shouldn't believe.”
―
Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the implementation of the work of Charles Darwin is a filthy slander, undeserving of you and an insult to this audience. Darwin’s thought was not taught in Germany; Darwinism was so derided in Germany along with every other form of unbelief that all the great modern atheists, Darwin, Einstein and Freud were alike despised by the National Socialist regime.
Now, just to take the most notorious of the 20th century totalitarianisms – the most finished example, the most perfected one, the most ruthless and refined one: that of National Socialism, the one that fortunately allowed the escape of all these great atheists, thinkers and many others, to the United States, a country of separation of church and state, that gave them welcome – if it’s an atheistic regime, then how come that in the first chapter of Mein Kampf, that Hitler says that he’s doing God’s work and executing God’s will in destroying the Jewish people? How come the fuhrer oath that every officer of the Party and the Army had to take, making Hitler into a minor god, begins, “I swear in the name of almighty God, my loyalty to the Fuhrer?” How come that on the belt buckle of every Nazi soldier it says Gott mit uns, God on our side? How come that the first treaty made by the Nationalist Socialist dictatorship, the very first is with the Vatican? It’s exchanging political control of Germany for Catholic control of German education. How come that the church has celebrated the birthday of the Fuhrer every year, on that day until democracy put an end to this filthy, quasi-religious, superstitious, barbarous, reactionary system?
Again, this is not a difference of emphasis between us. To suggest that there’s something fascistic about me and about my beliefs is something I won't hear said and you shouldn't believe.”
―
“But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
