Quote by Rudolf Augstein on Pre-Kohl Birth

"Brandt's biography provides material for a legend. The illegitimate child, the socialist, the emigrant was able to become chancellor and was thus the first to break away from the master-race tradition." Heinrich Böll

"We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant." Oswald Spengler