angels and devils

Hollie 2022-04-21 09:03:05

The deaths of the two boys were inevitable results, one was humiliated and coerced because of bedwetting; the other witnessed the killing, and his personal creed was greatly shocked. The open resistance forced him to go to the Eastern Front, instead of being killed more brutally. , he chose to swim to the end alone. The conflict between individual positions and collective positions under the influence of war cannot be resisted, but it is possible to do nothing.

In the first half of the 20th century, the Nordics were regarded by the Nazis as the purest descendants of the Aryan race, and the Nazis recruited these noble Aryans into the SS. These good-looking Nordic faces were both angels and devils in that era.

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Before the Fall quotes

  • Christoph Schneider: Pull yourself together!

    Albrecht Stein: Pull myself together? Do you know what we just did? You shouldn't have shot! You shouldn't have shot!

    Tjaden: I didn't give the order. Your father said they had guns!

    Albrecht Stein: Why are you looking at me like that?

    Friedrich Weimer: I'm not looking at you.

    Albrecht Stein: I know what you're thinking. Don't look at me like that!

  • Albrecht Stein: [reading from his essay] "As childish as it sounds, the winter time and the sight of freshly fallen snow always fill us with inexplicable joy. Perhaps because as children, we associated it with Christmas. I always imagine myself the hero who killed dragons, rescued virgins, and freed the world from evil. As we went out yesterday to find the prisoners, I felt like that little boy who wanted to save the world."

    Vogler: Albrecht, stop.

    Albrecht Stein: But as we returned, I understood that I am part of the evil that I wanted to save us from.

    Vogler: Albrecht, stop.

    Albrecht Stein: Shooting prisoners is wrong. They were not armed, as Governor Stein told us, to incite us. We didn't shoot men, only children.

    Vogler: Out!