Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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the Germans will never forgive us

A Jewish rabbi best explained the mainspring of this narcissistic anti-Semitism: the Germans will never forgive us for their having gassed us at Auschwitz.

—p.190 The German Comedy: Scenes of Life After the Wall Three Bad Reasons and Two Good Ones to Fear the Germans (173) by Peter Schneider
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statistics on Jews in Germany

[...] present-day German anti-Semites have to make do with virtually no Jews. Before they were hunted down and murdered, about 600,000 Jews lived in Germany; now there are between 30,000 and 50,000. [...]

—p.189 Three Bad Reasons and Two Good Ones to Fear the Germans (173) by Peter Schneider
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perforce

the nation responsible for the Second World War and the Holocaust must perforce suffer enormous guilt

—p.184 Three Bad Reasons and Two Good Ones to Fear the Germans (173) by Peter Schneider
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antiwar reflex

With all due respect for our neighbours: What can they possibly expect? After a war which the Germans started and then lost, and which cost fifty million lives, the Germans have learned better than anybody else that war is something to be avoided under any circumstances. The children and the grandc…

—p.184 Three Bad Reasons and Two Good Ones to Fear the Germans (173) by Peter Schneider