"Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism."
— Thomas Mann

January 1, 1970

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Speech at the US Library of Congress (29 May 1945); published as "Germany and the Germans" ["Deutschland und die Deutschen"] in Die Neue Rundschau [Stockholm] (October 1945), p. 58, as translated by Helen T. Lowe-Porter