There is a remarkable episode about Baldur von Schirach (“Reich Youth Leader” and Gauleiter of Vienna in the Third Reich), or rather about the admirable workers of a factory in Vienna in 1941: When Schirach wanted to give a speech…
“… people so often go, “well, I listen, I listen, I know what you are talking about” – but really sensitive empathic understanding where you understand without judging, where you just understand what it´s like to live in the world of…
Love and courage belong together. Courage is a quality of the open heart: it is its strength. Love is not weak. The word “courage” comes from the Old French word “coeur” for “heart.” Courage is an expression of our sincere,…
Sebastian Haffner, born in Berlin in 1907, was a war journalist, publicist, historian and writer. During the Second World War he began writing for the “Observer” in British exile. In the 1950s he returned to Germany. His writings on Adolf…
He experienced hell. But in the midst of it all, he also began to ask himself why some people do not give up even under the most terrible circumstances, while others collapse. Viktor Frankl wrote: “Who among those who experienced…
… and the “Lyrical Medicine Cabinet” In 1936, Erich Kästner published a volume of poetry that he humorously called “The Lyrical Medicine Cabinet”. In it, he writes: “It feels good when someone else expresses your own sorrow. It is also pleasant…
