Klemperer – Oct. 1935

“Frau Kuhn unexpectedly here for a friendly visit. Preaches an ‘unembittered’ serenity of heart to me … Even today one can still be a Nazi for idealistic reasons, without being a criminal or an idiot. I told her: She does not know what dreadful things are happening. I changed Lessing’s words – Anyone who does not lose his reason over certain things has no reason — into: Anyone whose heart remains calm today, has no heart. She departed stricken, she is truly a good person.”

— Oct. 5, 1935

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2 Responses to Klemperer – Oct. 1935

  1. Asparagirl says:

    Note that Kuhn is a Jewish name, a variant of Kahn/Cohn/Cohen–Frau Kuhn could well have been one of the Jewish Nazi-sympathizers who liked the party for what could today be called National Greatness reasons.

    Great series on Klemperer, Shelia, I’m really enjoying reading it. But it does give you a shiver up your back to read the horror happen in slow motion. And I cannot shake the fear that someday someone will look at some of our blogs, our written diaries, and will yell at us, too, for being so blind to what was coalescing around us: “How could they not have read Little Green Footballs, JihadWatch, MEMRI, how could they not have known?”

  2. red says:

    Asparagirl:

    Chilling, indeed. We can only experience the present, and make guesses on the future, and hope we are right.

    It’s like the “surprise” of 9/11. In historical terms, the signs were all around us – coming at us – in loud shrieks and loud terrorist gestures – but … the pieces of the puzzle were not put together.

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