Reinhard Quotes

No, not anonymous. Maybe she didn't matter enough to the Brauns, certainly not enough to her mother and Uncle Dolf, and definitely not at all to Reinhard. But she mattered to herself. And that was all that needed to be true. She would figure something out

It is said that resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemy to die. There is no room for such a waste of energy in the service of God.

When you pull up roots in order to fulfill a divine destiny, there is not a sense of pain or loss. Rather, there is a great expectation for things to come.

You have faith stories, too. No matter how small, remember them, recite them, count them, and celebrate them. They build your faith for what is coming next in your life.

That meant Ms. Starkova was his. He'd found her; he'd tailed her; and he'd saved her from Reinhard Klein. By jungle law, even the urban jungle, that made her his.

The world is just a barrel-organ which the Lord God turns Himself. We all have to dance to the tune which is already on the drum

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might say—about that 'other' cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to atoms between the upper and nether millstones of Hitlerism and Stalinism. One of the most objective chroniclers is Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University. In his view, it is still 'Operation Reinhardt,' or the planned destruction of Polish Jewry, that is to be considered as the centerpiece of what we commonly call the Holocaust, in which of the estimated 5.7 million Jewish dead, 'roughly three million were prewar Polish citizens.' We should not at all allow ourselves to forget the millions of non-Jewish citizens of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and other Slav territories who were also massacred. But for me the salient fact remains that anti-Semitism was the regnant, essential, organizing principle of all the other National Socialist race theories. It is thus not to be thought of as just one prejudice among many.

We do not first acquire the faith that we bring to Scripture. Scripture encourages faith. “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).

Czechs are laughing beasts.

CEOs having psychopathic tendencies and how their lack of empathy helped them in a corporate setting.

God the Deliverer The primary truth about God is that He is the Deliverer, the Emancipator, and the Savior. He is God only to the free. Faith is a venture that turns life into an adventure.

A. Scott Berg’s more recent Wilson; John Keegan’s wrenching The First World War; Martin Gilbert’s The First World War; Gerhard Ritter’s The Schlieffen Plan; Lowell Thomas’s 1928 book about World War I U-boats and their crews, Raiders of the Deep; Reinhard Scheer’s Germany’s High Sea Fleet in the World War; Churchill’s The World Crisis, 1911–1918; Paul Kennedy’s The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880–1914; and R. H. Gibson and Maurice Prendergast’s primer, The German Submarine War, 1914–1918. I

Lately the commandant speaks more and more intimately of the führer and the latest thing- prayers, petroleum, loyalty- that he requires. The führer requires trustworthiness, electricity, boot leather. Werner is beginning to see, approaching his sixteenth birthday, that what the führer really requires is boys. Great rows of them walking to the conveyor belt to climb on. Give up cream for the führer, sleep for the führer, aluminum for the führer. Give up Reinhard Wöhlmann's father and Karl Westerholzer's father and Martin Burkhard's father.

Reinhard Messner hatte einmal nach einer Nahtoderfahrung beim Abstieg vom Mount Everest gesagt, der Vorgang des Sterbens wäre das Leichteste. Schwer wäre es nur vorher. Solange man noch Hoffnung besaesse.Waere aber der feste Entschluss zum Sterben getroffen, ginge alles ganz leicht.

Everyone of us has her/his own niche in life. There are lot of people I look up to, they inspire me and they will always influence my life. Here are some of those inspirational figures and their niches: . Kenneth Hagin- A man of faith . Myles Munroe- A man of Kingdom of God . Mike Murdock- A man of wisdom . Casey Treat- A man that has a heart for orphans . Oscar Nkosi- A grounded teacher of God's word . Matthew Ashimolowo- A man who raises champions . John Maxwell- A man of leadership . Reinhard Bonnke- A man of winning souls . Mark Chironna- A man that delivers the fresh word from above.

As Reinhard Bendix (1916–91) summed up Weber’s view: ‘the Puritan divines brought about a profound depersonalization of the family and neighborhood life’ which was linked to a ‘decline in kinship loyalties and a separation of business affairs from family affairs’ which led to the ‘isolation of the individual’.

-SIE REDEN VON BÜCHERN als seien es Menschen, mit denen man leben kann. -MIT MENSCHEN muß man leben. Mit Büchern kann man leben - und selig sein

The world is just a barrel-organ which the Lord God turns Himself. We all have to dance to the tune which is already on the drum.

Divine healings were signs and wonders to confirm the preaching of the gospel. He took the sick man by the hand and commanded that

People in obedience to the Lord do not worry, do not fret, do not need to know all of the outcomes before they are willing to commit themselves.

Faith...needs to be matched with action. Belief is not just brain cells in motion. It demands a response. Do we do what we believe? If we believe in a seed, we plant it.

He was astute enough to realise that ‘in a modern totalitarian system of government, there is no limit to the principle of state security, so that anyone who is in charge of it is bound to acquire almost unrestricted power.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of unity. He is the bonding element. This bonding is a wonderful effect of faith in Christ. It is creative. It brings about a new kind of oneness not even known in the closest of earthly families.

Jesús, quiero adorarte como lo hicieron los Reyes Magos, pero no tengo mucho que ofrecer. Toma mi corazón y quédate con él. Toma mis acciones y bendícelas para que siempre te glorifiquen. Toma mis oraciones y ayúdame a crecer. Am

We are agents of omnipotence. This means that unlimited power is at our fingertips. It also means that there are no great men working in God’s Kingdom. Rather, there is a great God at work in human beings who have childlike faith.

In his book, Holy Spirit, Revelation and Revolution: Exploring Holy Spirit Dimensions, Reinhard Bonnke says: “Prayer is not enough to rouse a dead church. It needs the power of the Word imbued with the life of the Spirit. Life comes from the living Word. What we can do and what we should do is preach the Word. Praying for God to work is fine, but praying for Him to do what we should be doing is pointless. We cannot send his Spirit anywhere. He moves with us, and He is where we are. We cannot pray for God to save souls and bless people and then wait for something to happen. He sends us with the Word and the Spirit awaits us. It is our privilege to work for him, save souls for him.  For anyone who thinks they do not have strength or power, the Word is their strength and their power. There are two important things to note: Holy Spirit meetings without the Word are human meetings, and prayer is not a substitute for the Word.” 1

No matter the era, whichever the society, people always gaze at the stars when young. Then they stretch out their hands and try to catch them. And then one day, they realize their arms are not long enough to catch the stars, and that's when they grow up.

Which thread shall I choose, Lord? There are so many. They hang before my eyes like strands of silk in a doorway. Each promising that it will weave the finest tapestry of my life. But it is not my tapestry. It is not my life. So again I ask, which thread do I choose? Which strand will pass through the very eye of the needle?

Gleichzeitig wird die Illusion erzeugt, mit der Einhaltung der Compliance-Regeln sei auch eine gute Unternehmenaufsicht gewährleistet. Moralisch erwünschtes Verhalten lässt sich gerade nicht durch Vorschriften erreichen. Regeln stärken Regeltreue. Aber sie schwächen den moralischen Kompass, sie schwächen das Gefühl für Akzeptanz, sie Schwächen die Verantwortung — Verantwortung, die sich naturgemäß auf das Ungeregelte bezieht.

When people decide not to take risks, this is why. They fear they might suffer unexpected consequences. And, as my ulcers and depression proved, the risk is real. But is that reason to hang onto the past? To cling to mediocrity? No. Doing that is the first step along the path of seeing a living faith become a dead one. The old place, the old building, the old method, the old success, is comforting. The new step is frightening. We must place our trust completely in God to move beyond these comfort zones in life.

Violent anti-communist fears by the military and munition makers justified the transformation of a once democratic nation into the fascist state we have today. Members of the Nazi Party now hold key positions in our universities, factories, aircraft and aerospace programs.14 When the Nazi empire collapsed in 1945, General Reinhard Gehlen joined forces with our OSS. Gehlen was placed in charge of wartime intelligence for Foreign Armies East. “It was not long before Gehlen was back in business, this time for the United States. Gehlen named his price and terms.”15 A series of meetings was arranged at the Pentagon with Nazi Gehlen, Allen Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover and others.16 The Gehlen organization combined forces and agents with the OSS, which was soon to become known as the CIA. Experts in clandestine and illegal control of Germany through political assassinations and reversal of judicial processes became the teachers of Allen Dulles and Richard Helms. They helped form the new CIA in 1947, based upon clandestine activities in Nazi Germany.17

You’ll see the day, ten years from now, when Adolf Hitler will occupy precisely the same position in Germany that Jesus Christ has now. —REINHARD HEYDRICH One sometimes hears that Hitler was a Christian. He was certainly not, but neither was he openly anti-Christian, as most of his top lieutenants were. What helped him aggrandize power, he approved of, and what prevented it, he did not. He was utterly pragmatic. In public he often made comments that made him sound pro-church or pro-Christian, but there can be no question that he said these things cynically, for political gain. In private, he possessed an unblemished record of statements against Christianity and Christians. Especially early in his career, Hitler wished to appear as a typical German, so he praised the churches as bastions of morality and traditional values. But he also felt that, in time, the churches would adapt to the National Socialist way of thinking. They would eventually be made into vessels for Nazi ideology, so it little served his purposes to destroy them. It would be easier to change what already existed and benefit from whatever cultural cachet they possessed. 166

As I waited for the time for preaching, I said within myself, “Oh Lord, she doesn’t have faith. How’s this going to work?” In a moment the Holy Spirit spoke back to me, “Today it’s not her faith, it’s your faith. You are going to see a great miracle.” This idea was too big for my theology-in-a-nutshell. She didn’t have faith, but my faith was enough for her miracle? Immediately, my mind raced through the Scriptures. Could I find an example in the New Testament that would demonstrate that Jesus healed someone based on the faith of another? Suddenly it came to me: the story of the paralyzed man who was let down through the roof to Jesus.

The need is not the call. This piece of wisdom has saved the lives of many a missionary, especially in Africa, where the needs are so great that they can pull you to pieces. A missionary can put out so many fires trying to meet needs around him that he suffers burnout. I have known missionary friends who said, “I hear the cry of lost souls calling me into the mission field.” These workers are headed for the missionary bone yard. They have responded to the call of the need rather than the call of God. We must go where God sends us, speak what He gives us to speak, hear His voice and obey it – this is our best protection from burnout. It will also guide us to the very best strategy for accomplishing His mission. For everything a man does to follow the call of God, there are ten things he does not do. We cannot do everything. We must focus on the call and not simply the needs.

When America stood on the threshold of World War II, Hoover continued a friendly relationship with the Nazis dominating Interpol, the Berlin-based international secret police. He’d been obsessed with the “Red menace” since 1919, when he took the helm of the Bureau’s General Intelligence Division. Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Arthur Nebe and other Nazi fanatics were active in Interpol. Even after Hitler occupied Czechoslovakia, Hoover ignored all evidence of Nazi death squads and atrocities and cooperated with the boys in Berlin. When France fell, Hoover exchanged lists of wanted criminals, enclosing autographed photographs of himself. It was not until three days before Pearl Harbor that he called a halt to the fraternization—and then only because he feared his image might be tarnished.

The main obstacle, though, was the toxic brew of bureaucratic infighting, institutional confusion, last-minute changes of plan, and clashing objectives that stultified almost every major initiative undertaken by the Nazi state. Initially, Himmler and the RKFDV—aided by two lieutenants, Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann

The knife hung in his hand, and he tucked it behind his right leg. Chris could hear footsteps inside of the home and coming to the door. The sound of the lock flipping caught Chris’s ear. The door pulled open. “What did you forg—” The man’s question stopped cold when he saw Chris standing there. “Sorry. I thought you were my girlfriend coming back. Can

Facciamo a braccetto gli ultimi passi. Siamo su. Ci abbracciamo. E’ mezzogiorno. Abbiamo raggiunto la meta dei nostri desideri, poco sotto il cielo. Oswald è completamente euforico. Grida “Siamo su, siamo su” dietro la sua maschera. Io sono felice, perché la vetta comporta anche la fine della penosa salita. La vetta significa non dover più fare nessun passo verso l'alto. Non riesco ancora ad esserne consapevole, solo le mie conoscenze mi dicono: “Questo è il punto più alto della terra”. Scattiamo le fotografie per l'album di famiglia: io, il vincitore della vetta, io, il superuomo. Io, la creatura senza fiato, io, il Reinhard su un mucchio di neve. Pian piano realizzo il freddo, il vento, la mia stanchezza. Pian piano, dopo la gioia, viene la tristezza, viene una sensazione di vuoto: una utopia è diventata realtà. Intuisco che anche l'Everest è solo un'anticima. La vera cima non la raggiungerò mai.

I AM LIZBETH GRIMM! Whoever won the giveaway copy of Grimm's American Macabre, please contact me!

The game theoretical analysis of the chain store game by backward induction is very easy and does not put any strain on the cognitive abilities of human beings. Even game theoretically untrained persons understand the backward induction argument without difficulty. Nevertheless, the conclusion is behaviorally unacceptable. The author was so worried about this contradiction that he felt three weeks of physical discomfort.

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The ties that bind a family together must surely mean more in the Spirit than we can know in the flesh.

David turned on the office chair to the window directly behind him. He took the sunglasses from his eyes and stared down at the alley below.

We are not helping people to get God right, but to get right with God. The Holy Spirit alone opens hearts and minds.

Operation Reinhard's objective was the total annihilation of the three million Jews inhabiting the Generalgouvernement - the part of Poland under Nazi control. How to describe such an undertaking? Any generation that did not experience the Holocaust can learn about it only from words, and the knowledge thus gained is never complete. The right words, however, are difficult to find. People who perished had no voice, and those who survived were pushed into a realm of silence by the singular character of their experiences. The violence they had endured - in concentration camps, in hiding, or in prisons - destroyed for their capacity for making contact with the world. Their experience was and remains in great measure inexpressible, because pain and physical violence destroy language and cause a reversion to a state anterior to language. Still, trauma demands to be expressed. What is horrific remains horrific so long as it is not named. Once a name is attached to it, the horror retreats; it diminishes, since the very act of naming reconnects the victim to the world. Theodor Adorno wrote that what the Nazis did to the Jews was inexpressible. Yet a way of expressing it must be found if we do not want to doom the victims to oblivion. Their number was too great to name them one by one. This is why, Adorno believed, the concept of 'genocide' was invented. That term acknowledges the facts, codified and inscribed what was inexpressible into the international declaration of human rights, normalizing it and rendering it measurable But the codification did not render 'what the Nazis did to the Jews' easier to express.

Yet one searches in vain for a rational explanation of Heydrich’s descent into evil. No single biographical fragment satisfies. Not his awkward, ugly-duckling

It had been an hour and a half since he’d checked on her—he’d inserted an IV into her arm. Buprenorphine, a synthetic opiate, filled the drip bag. He had picked it up when he acquired the Xylazine to deal with his illness, but it was too strong for his tastes. Watered down, it could work to keep her docile when she awoke

I have one last thing to say: You, Reinhard Heydrich, were truly a good SS man. On a more personal level I thank you for your unwavering loyalty and wonderful friendship, which united us in this life and death can not obliterate it!

The Sapa Inca—“not only a secular ruler but also the head of the state religion,” according to Reinhard—relied on his status as the son of the sun to support his claim to power. For this reason, the cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) were crucial to Inca beliefs, according to the Spanish chronicles.

His designer suit didn’t have a wrinkle on it. His tie was crisp. The sun shined off the toes of his shoes. A set of aviator sunglasses hid his eyes. His wife had been doing his shopping again.

Commitment Now, nobody can have unity on his or her own. You cannot be married on your own. There is no such thing as an independent believer. You cannot have unity by belonging nowhere.

The physical world has its boundaries; only the psychic is ‘oceanic,’ as the author of Civilization and its Discontents puts it. That is why mankind’s next bold step must be the materializa­tion of the psychic.” — “General von Greehahn” (General Reinhard Gehlen) in Agent of the Devil by Hans Habe 23

free of anything that could tell us who did

Irena wrote to us that many Jews wouldn’t give up their children because they didn’t believe the Germans would kill them. When did the Jews know that they would die?” “This is a profound question. The first message about the mass killings in Eastern Poland, like Ponary, around Vilna, comes to Warsaw almost a year before the liquidation of the ghetto. But this news only reaches a very small circle of people in the ghetto. The Ringelblum archives tell us that in the autumn of 1941 some people believed this, especially those active in the Underground. In March 1942, when Aktion Reinhard, the murder of the Jews in the General Gouvernement, began, a lot of common people from the east sent letters through the post to their relatives and friends in the Warsaw ghetto with the message: ‘They are killing us. Be careful. Take refuge, because they are killing us.

The elevator doors spread and took us inside. We rode up in silence. The elevator doors opened and let us into a hallway. A sign on the wall showed that the serial crimes unit was to our left, just as the guard downstairs had said.

Brennan exuded a strength of purpose and possessed a command of character that permitted him to play virtually any nationality in any setting. In Hangmen Also Die! (April 15, 1943), Fritz Lang’s film about the assassination of Hitler’s henchman, Reinhard Heydrich, Brennan jettisons his avuncular and rustic persona for a powerful performance as a Czech professor.

Jesus did not call them—or you and me—to ditch their smiles and to wear sackcloth. His mission was not to turn people into “stick-in-the-muds.” Jesus Himself was not very conventional! The disciples caught His infectious spirit, one that would challenge the stuffy establishment. He showed them new things, especially faith and love, by which, they would conquer the world.

To put it at its simplest, the police had been placed under the control of the SS, run by SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler. He in turn created a new organization, the Reich Security Main Office, under the command of SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, into which were placed the three elements of the Security Police, to wit: the Criminal Police (Kripo), the Secret Police (Gestapo), and the Party’s own intelligence service, the SD. So to be a detective was effectively to be a member of the SS also, and every Criminal Police rank had its equivalent in the SS.

the morning. “They’re late,” he said. He looked over at the six-foot-four, two-hundred-and-thirty-pound man dressed in tactical gear with a similar mask and hat setup concealing his face.

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Sure,” Chris said. He motioned to Tim, also dressed similarly but six inches shorter and sixty pounds lighter. They made for the stairwell leading down. David

If moral values amount to nothing but subjective phenomena of the human mind without independent meaning and existence—a position held by a variety of naturalist, positivist, and pragmatist philosophers—one never can be found lacking in light of an objective standard of moral values.

The truth,” he writes, “is that disordered lust springs from a perverted will; when lust is pandered to, a habit is formed; when habit is not checked, it hardens into compulsion. These were like interlinking rings forming what I have described as a chain, and my harsh servitude used it to keep me under duress.

Stupidity is not the absence of knowledge, its more of the misuse of knowledge.

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address.

This is Kane.” “Kane, we have one.” I

answered.

Dear Jesus, I know that every perfect gift and especially that of chastity depends on the power of your Providence. Without you, a mere creature can do nothing. Therefore, I beg you to defend by your grace the chastity and purity of my body and soul. And if I have ever imagined or felt anything that can stain my chastity and purity, blot it out, Supreme Lord of my powers, that I may advance with a pure heart in your love and service, offering myself on the most pure altar of your divinity all the days of my life.

Operation Reinhard, whose ultimate goal was the elimination of Polish Jews living in the “General Government”, an area of occupied Poland under Nazi rule that was designated as a separate administrative region. To implement Operation Reinhard, three killing centers were started at the Lublin District (Sobibor and Belzec) and the Warsaw District (Treblinka II). Prisoners at these killing centers were murdered by being herded into gas chambers where carbon monoxide was pumped in. Some 1.5 million Jews were murdered in these killing centers between March 1942 and November 1943, when Sobibor and Treblinka ceased operations following prisoner uprisings. Only 300 prisoners were known to have survived these killing centers, mainly escapees who managed to get away from the camps during the uprisings.

Reinhard von Lohengramm was a foe of republican democracy in the gravest sense—not because he was a cruel and stupid ruler, but because he was just the opposite. The polar opposite of democratic republicanism is the longing for a savior—the idea that, because the people lack the ability to reform society, right its wrongs, and resolve its inconsistencies, they must await the arrival of a transcendental “great man.

Author’s note: For the events leading up to the destruction of the Fourth Army in the East Prussian encirclement on 29 March 1945 see Reinhard Hauschild, Plus Minus Null? – later published under the title Flammendes Haff, Verlag Schneekluth, 1952.

It took a tragedy to shake me up, to make me take a step back, look at my situation and say, “This needs to change.

Under the regime of Nazi Germany, these perfectly "ordinary" people were turned into something extraordinarily inhuman.

Reinhard Heydrich was born March 7, 1904 in Halle on the Saale. Fear and excessive caution were foreign to him, the greatest sportsman of the SS, a bold fencer, rider, pentathlon champion, and swimmer. With courage and energy he defended himself and shot twice at his attackers, though he had been gravely wounded. He has transmitted synthesis virtues to his sons, who honor his blood and heritage. His wife and children prosthesis deserve our attention and loving care. His memory will aid us when we have tasks to carry out for the leader and the Reich. He wants to be our companion in good times and bad. Therefore, he will be present when we are celebrating with our comrades. he wants to be with his old comrades: Weitzel, Moder, Herrmann, Mülverstedt, Stahlecker, and many others.

Moreover, lawyers accounted for more than half the participants at the January 1942 Wannsee Conference that promulgated the Final Solution. Reinhard Heydrich, who hosted the conference, was one of the cruelest mass murderers in Nazi Germany. Nicknamed the “Hangman,” Heydrich said he was surprised that the lawyers and judges sitting around that table went along with other participants without raising any objection whatsoever, but by then, clearly, there was no justice in Germany. It had been perverted beyond recognition.

Munich was also the base for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, CIA-connected broadcast services that beamed news and anti-Soviet propaganda into Communist countries. Germany’s foreign intelligence service, headed by the former Nazi officer Reinhard Gehlen, had its headquarters in the outlying district of Pullach.

Yeah, these two think waiting tables is all about sitting down all day like they do, painting nails, doing hair,” Conchita said in a singsong voice. “That’s what you think,” Nelda

Before the presents, Maximilian and his brother Reinhard would bathe together in the smoke kitchen in a wood tub held together by iron rings. Cursing when one of them had peed in the bathwater, they would lather themselves with a bar of turpentine soap with a stag stamped on its surface, dry their lean white bodies, the genitals still hairless, with a coarse towel beside the glowing red griddle of the wood-burning stove, and put on clean underwear, ironed shirts, and gray wool socks.

came her daily trips to the gym and going out with some friends from work a few times a week. Those few times a week turned

I had suffered a severe shock at the hands of the Gestapo, but, for all his reassuring words, Uncle Reinhard scared me even more. He was the one in charge of the police.

We must work on ourselves. Through ceaseless self discipline, we must anchor and secure in ourselves the eternal principles of the worldview given us by the Führer. We must first standardize ourselves spiritually, so each thinks the same about the opponent, equally rejects him without making personally egocentric and sympathetic exceptions. In order to preserve our folk, we must be very hard toward the opponent, even at the risk of sometimes hurting an individual opponent as a human or appearing to many certainly well meaning people to be undisciplined brutes. If we do not fulfill our historical task as National Socialists, because we are too objective and humane, one will nonetheless not grant us moderating circumstances. It will only be said: They did not fulfill their task before history. If somebody is our conscious opponent, he must be defeated subjectively and without exception. If for example every German out of pity excludes even just “one decent” Jew or Freemason from the fight, that would mean 60 million exceptions.

Marc-André Reinhard and his colleagues found that the ability of student judges to detect deception improved drastically if they were given time to think—but only if, in that time frame, they thought about something other than the case they were judging. If they had to make an immediate judgment, they did no better than chance. The same was true if they were allowed to deliberate consciously. But when they were kept from consciously deliberating, by, for example, completing a demanding word-search puzzle, their accuracy improved significantly.

Italia e Germania, riparte il dialogo Al vertice voluto dal Quirinale gli analisti guardano oltre gli stereotipi “Da soli non contiamo nulla nel mondo, smettiamo di accusarci a vicenda” 2.715 Erasmus È questo il numero degli universitari italiani che nel 2012-2013 hanno studiato in Germania. Gli studenti tedeschi in Italia invece sono stati 1.842 460 parole Difficile parlarsi, quando la più grave crisi da un secolo ha polarizzato l’Europa e spinto Italia e Germania su fronti opposti. Nella patria di Angela Merkel, purtroppo, si distingue spesso tra «Paesi debitori» e «creditori» o ci si ossessiona per i «compiti a casa» e l’«azzardo morale». E la retorica sul pigro Sudeuropa fatica a spegnersi. Ma anche in Italia un populismo pigro ha ispirato campagne elettorali con slogan che propagandavano «più Italia, meno Germania». E la tentazione di addossare colpe antiche che fanno da zavorra alla nostra economia all’austerità targata Berlino, è sempre dietro l’angolo. Inevitabile, dunque, che all’«Italian-German High Level Dialogue» organizzato su impulso del Quirinale, con il patrocinio della Farnesina e il coordinamento dell’Ispi, i toni non siano sempre stati concilianti. Ma invece di continuare a dividersi sul debito pubblico o sul surplus commerciale, i banchieri, gli imprenditori, gli economisti, i diplomatici, gli analisti e i (pochi) politici convenuti a Torino hanno preferito spesso partire dai punti in comune per ritrovare la via del dialogo. Un’opportunità importante che secondo il presidente di Generali Gabriele Galateri di Genola «dovrebbe essere arricchita con un coinvolgimento maggiore della società civile. La verità è che quando le persone si conoscono e si confrontano, tante incomprensioni vengono superate». E forse, il primo sforzo, ha sostenuto l’ambasciatore Reinhard Schäfers, potrebbe essere quello di rinunciare a termini che in Italia hanno spesso un sapore paternalistico come i «compiti a casa». Il secondo sforzo, ha aggiunto, ha già un aggancio all’attualità. Perché le due maggiori potenze manifatturiere in Europa «non possono definire insieme le priorità» per i piani di investimenti europei, a partire da quello targato Juncker? Anche per Klaus-Peter Roehler, amministratore delegato di Allianz, il dialogo bilaterale «può dare importanti impulsi alla crescita». Il presidente di Unicredit e del gruppo Springer, Giuseppe Vita, citando un argomento prediletto da Merkel, ha ricordato la base di ogni ragionamento sull’opportunità di mettere insieme le forze: «l’Italia e la Germania sono realtà assolutamente trascurabili, nel panorama mondiale». Solo in una cornice europea possono negoziare in modo credibile con il resto del mondo. C’è anche un problema di comunicazione, ovviamente. E se «in Germania c’è una percezione troppo scarsa delle riforme importanti che l’Italia sta facendo», secondo il presidente dell’Autorità per il controllo delle leggi, Johannes Ludewig, il membro del board della Bundesbank, Carl-Ludwig Thiele, ha lamentato l’informazione inesatta sulla Germania che molti giornali italiani diffondono. Soprattutto, ha esclamato, «nessun Paese è amato come l’Italia». Se questo non è un buon punto di partenza. [t. mas.]

Operation Reinhard,

In 1941, at some point still not determined by historians, Hitler decided on what the Nazis referred to as the Final Solution—the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of all European Jews. On January 20, 1942, at a conference in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, SS general Reinhard Heydrich and 14 other high-ranking SS officers and German officials met to discuss how to apply the Final Solution to the 9.5 million Jews across Occupied Europe.

Lieutenant Kane series follows the Tampa homicide lieutenant on and off duty over the better part of a year—though I think in reality, if most people who worked law enforcement had a year like his, they would be turning in their resignations. Through the story arc of the six-book series, you’ll see Lieutenant Kane go toe-to-toe with some of the most twisted, homicidal, and downright ruthless adversaries imaginable—all while doing his best to juggle his often-