This was exactly why they'd failed: never being satisfied with what a person had to give, always expecting so much sacrifice that you had to hate yourself for anything less.
Sonya HuberTag: germany
Helmuth said that Mann felt it would be even more difficult to bring about a revolution in Germany because the German people are so fatalistic. While they are deep thinkers who love philosophy, they have a deep suspicion that there really is no great meaning or purpose to life. Thus, they seek security above all else and are unwilling to overthrow a bad government because of the attitude, 'What difference would it make anyway?' Hence, Helmuth concluded, the people were willing to accept Hitler because, in some perverse way, he managed to create for them a fatal feeling of safety.
Rudi WobbeSo blieb [den individuellen Aufsteigern aus dem Arbeitermilieu] allein die Imitation der Verhaltensweisen und Ideologien von der mindestens heimlich bewunderten privilegierten Schicht, in die einzutreten schließlich Ziel des langen Weges war. Doch das Original mag den Nachahmer nicht, verhält sich bestenfalls gönnerhaft-spöttisch, von oben herab. Der Kopierende gibt sich alle erdenkliche Mühe, wird oft gar zum aggressiven Apologeten des Vorbildes, was – so Norbert Elias – »zu ganz spezifischen Verkrümmungen des Bewußtseins und der Haltung« führt. Der sozialdemokratische Kotau vor den Imperativen der Privatisierung, der finanzkapitalistischen Entgrenzungen, der Steuerbefreiung für Kapitalinvestoren in den Jahren 1999-2005 – er mag damit zu tun haben.
Franz WalterTag: germany politicians working-class parvenu social-climbers social-democrats
You can do anything you put your mind to doing.
Gertrude KerschnerTag: wwii world-war-ii germany adolf-hitler poland womanhood folklore femininity robert sandor ww2 national-socialism gertrude world-view world-history austria weltanschauung bdm bund-der-artamanen bund-deutscher-maedel country-service-camp ct farmers-harvest giersdorf greenwich guardian-of-the-country hirschberg hitler-youth jelenia-góra jm jungmaedel jungmaedeldienst kasperle kerschner kleinzell landjahr-lager league-of-german-girls linz lower-silesian-voivodeship neiderschlesien neo-pagan nsdap odal-rune podgórzyn reisalpe walpurgis-night wandervőgel
Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.
Anna FunderTag: politics betrayal germany traitor mistress gdr betray informer security-state
Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.
Anna FunderTag: beat germany goverment trauma survivor gdr ptsd beating traumatic security-state phsyical-abuse
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