W. G. Sebald Quotes
Up until the 17th century, Germany was far more advanced, but then everything devastated by the 30 Years War began to fall apart... The culture is not innocent.
Sebald, W. G. The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W. G. Sebald. Edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Seven Stories Press, 2007.
Hitler ridiculed the letter after receiving it in public speech.
Webb and others believe that President George W. Bush invaded Iraq, and unseated Saddam Hussein with no intention of leaving—that the plan was to establish a permanent American presence in the Middle East.
He was one of the world’s greatest polymaths who among his other accomplishments was the “Father of Sociology” and was the leading Islamic intellectual of his era.
DPs were “displaced persons” -- the euphemism for people who were no longer welcome in their country of birth. Congress, made up mostly of immigrants or the children of immigrants who were poor and downtrodden, were not enthusiastic about the United States absorbing many of the world’s DPs resulting from WWII.
This was a best seller when published in China. It is surprising to many that the Chinese censors even allowed it to be published.
Poland and most other European Governments and their people were very fearful of a strong Germany with WWII always present in their memories. However, at this time the Conservative German government had very passive policies with respect to the European Community and some German leadership and activism was thought necessary by many leaders of Europe. Germany was one of the strongest economies in Europe and without the WWII legacy of aggression would normally be expected to be more of a European leader.
This early Irish emigration—mostly to America—were mostly Ulster Presbyterians known in America as “Scotch-Irish”. The editors were very concerned as the emigrants were the backbone of the Ulster workforce. The huge Catholic emigration would come later.
The Ambassador of Bavaria represented an area where the politicians saw democrats and socialists as their great enemy, as did many of the leading right wing conservatives in all of Germany. They believed that a great war would give them a chance to crush democratic socialism in Europe. Bethmann warned that just the opposite might result, and indeed it did. He was correct. Many of the crowned heads of Europe were deposed and the democratic socialists emerged as a major political factor in the victorious democracies. Bethmann-Hollweg, however, was not a strong leader and could not prevent the Conservatives, the military leaders, and Kaiser Wilhelm from initiating WWI.
Winfried Georg Sebald, known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by literary critics as one of the greatest living authors.
