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Sinister Refuge
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John Davis John Davis said: " Out of the Darkness, by Frank Trentmann; Alfred A. Knopf: New York; $50.00
An appreciation of ‘The Germans, 1942-2022’, requires an Homeric effort. Nevertheless, often awarded Professor Frank Trentmann, currently of Birkbeck in London and Helsinki Un
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John Davis John Davis said: " All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, by Rebecca Donner; Little, Brown: New York; $32.00 hardback
Those who seek to know what the subtle, horrific, then relentless growth of dictatorship looks like will do well to read of the final years of Mildred
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Shannon L. Alder
“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
Shannon L. Alder

“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.”
Ken Levine

Primo Levi
“There is no rationality in the Nazi hatred: it is hate that is not in us, it is outside of man.. We cannot understand it, but we must understand from where it springs, and we must be on our guard. If understanding is impossible, knowing is imperative, because what happened could happen again. Consciences can be seduced and obscured again - even our consciences. For this reason, it is everyone duty to reflect on what happened. Everybody must know, or remember, that when Hitler and Mussolini spoke in public, they were believed, applauded, admired, adored like gods. They were "charismatic leaders" ; they possessed a secret power of seduction that did not proceed from the soundness of things they said but from the suggestive way in which they said them, from their eloquence, from their histrionic art, perhaps instinctive, perhaps patiently learned and practised. The ideas they proclaimed were not always the same and were, in general, aberrant or silly or cruel. And yet they were acclaimed with hosannas and followed to the death by millions of the faithful.”
Primo Levi, If This Is a Man • The Truce

“...we pretend to be grown up and responsible; we are so proud and self-assured--and look at the result. The world lies in bomb dust and ruins about us.”
Alfred Delp, Alfred Delp, SJ: Prison Writings

Lois McMaster Bujold
“When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.”
Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

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