Luke’s Reviews > The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany > Status Update

It is strange that the Nazis falsified even the secret documents deposited in their official government archives.

"If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world," [Jan Masaryk, the Czech minister, the son of the founding father of the Czechoslovak Republic] finally said, "I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentleman, God help your souls!"

"... drove through streets decorated not only with the swastika but with the Union Jack..."

This lucrative trade in human freedom was handled by a special organization set up under the S.S. by Heydrich, the "Office for Jewish Emigration," which became the sole Nazi agency authorized to issue permits to Jews to leave the country.

"The British need for tranquility is great. It would be profitable to find out what England would be willing to pay for such tranquility."

-Baron von Weizsaecker, head of the Political Department of the German Foreign Office, Nov 10, 1937

Regimented he was and sometimes terrorized, but so was everyone else—and centuries of regimentation had accustomed him, as it had all other [Americans], to being told what to do.

In making common cause with the lawlessness, indeed the gangsterism, of [ICE], the [US government officials] were putting themselves in a position in which they could never oppose future acts of [ICE] terrorism not only at home but even when they were aimed across the frontiers, even when they were committed against their own members.

On March 5, 1933, the day of the last democratic elections they were to know during Hitler's life, they spoke with their ballots. Despite all the terror and intimidation, the majority of them rejected Hitler.

"The Reich Youth Leader was Baldur von Schirach, a romantically minded young man and an energetic organizer, whose mother was an American and whose great-grandfather, a Union officer, had lost a leg at Bull Run; he told his American jailers at Nuremburg that he had become an anti-Semite at the age of seventeen after reading a book called Eternal Jew, by Henry Ford." Even Shirer can't safely objectify this one.

Worth remembering here, while Shirer fearmongers about 'men of unnatural sexual inclinations', that those marked with the upside down pink triangle were freed from the concentration camps only to be re-incarcerated under Allied-Germany laws.