At just this time I
read a dangerous, alluringly ambiguous sentence of Stendhal’s. He wrote it as a coda after the restoration
of 1814, an event that he felt to be a “descent into the quagmire,” just as I
viewed the events of 1933.[1]
~ Sebastian Haffner, Defying
Hitler: A Memoir (2002)
[1]
Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler: A
Memoir, tr. Oliver Pretzel (New York: Picador, 2002), p. 205. This memoir was first written in 1938. Rediscovered after the author’s death in
1999, it was published in Germany in the year 2000 and later translated into
English by the author’s son.
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