Janet Wheeler

“I’d never viewed him as the one wounded, as he’d bullied those smaller than him, but I supposed pain was a cycle that never stopped turning.”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“Perhaps you would like to walk over there, madam,” he said, “because we are expecting masses of people to come here very shortly and a lady in your condition should not be caught in such a great crush.” I walked off several blocks and waited for the masses, but they did not come. I suppose the local Nazis felt frightened that the Führer might be displeased with empty streets and take it out on them, so they finally bused in a lot of schoolchildren who were instructed to scream “Wir wollen unser Führer sehen!”—“We want to see our Führer!”—so the madman would be “compelled” to appear on the balcony”
― Edith Hahn Beer, The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust

“To live in ignorance, all you had to do was listen only to the Nazi news.”
― Edith Hahn Beer, The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust

“Friends keep at it, through all the tricky bits.”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet