Quotes About Berlin

Indeed, in 1933 he refused to leave Freiburg to teach in Berlin, explaining that his 'philosophical work ... belongs right in the midst of the peasants' work'.

Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so inexplicably out of nowhere that it seemed to have been created by the rain itself.

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

Estamos juntos solo porque queremos; es una relación que no está basada ni en un pasado común ni en promesas de futuro que quizá no podamos cumplir. La parte de mí que tal vez habría deseado algo más de un hombre murió el día que me fui de Berlín.

Thwarted by the British and French on the world stage, Berlin decided in 1913 to concentrate Germany's military objectives in Europe. That year Germany grew into a singularly dangerous continental presence: besieged, paranoid and armed to the teeth.

Es que no te acuerdas de lo que te dije en Berlín, cuando estábamos perdidos en el bosque, luchando para rebelarnos contra nuestro destino? —Sí —le contestó Tatiana, rodeándole el cuello con las manos, cerrando los ojos—. Dijiste que ya me habías dejado marchar una vez, que viviríamos juntos o moriríamos juntos. —Eso es —dijo Alexander—. Y esta vez, viviremos juntos.

The Establishment Club was modelled on 'those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War'.

This written instruction, unlike any document ever discovered about the Holocaust, connects Hitler directly and in writing to a murder operation, the so-called Euthanasia Action. Known bureaucratically as T4, an abbreviation of the street address of its main office after April 1940, at Tiergartenstrasse Nr. 4, in the center of Berlin,