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No one has the right to steal our dreams and trespass upon our liberties.

— Friedrich Kellner Attributed

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To trample democracy with one’s feet and give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible one can really tremble over the things that will come.

Diary (1939)

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? We think we can behave against everyone in the exact same rabid way we did against the Jews: to smash, crush--and even exterminate.

Diary (1939)

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant. The sharpest means would still be too mild.

Diary (1939)

The world will rightfully be outraged over so much inhumanity, and it will ignite a hatred that can never be extinguished. . . . How long will this reign of terror continue?

Diary (1939)

We can hold up under everything if only we have the certainty the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.

Diary (1939)

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