Quotes by Stefan Heym

Stefan Heym

A foreman in the East wouldn’t know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.

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A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

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People

A Western writer came up to me and said, how come nobody at this demonstration spoke of German unity? I told him, because it isn’t on the agenda. People were interested in having another, better GDR, another, better socialism.

Agendas

People

Unity

And also, of course, I knew that the German people, they’re one, and would tend to consider themselves as one; and therefore they would consider the Wall as an enforced imprisonment. And I was right in thinking that way.

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Thinking

Wall

And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That was part of the Cold War – and part of the winning side of the Cold War.

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War

Winning

And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics and hampered the development of economics – and the country would fall back further and further in the economic competition with the West.

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Fall

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

Kind

People

West Germany

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.

Democracy

Germany

Republic

I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his whole attack.

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Meetings

Opportunity

I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were two ways of doing it and they took it the radical way, the forceful way.

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Quotes by Stefan Heym

Stefan Heym

A foreman in the East wouldn’t know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.

A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

A Western writer came up to me and said, how come nobody at this demonstration spoke of German unity? I told him, because it isn’t on the agenda. People were interested in having another, better GDR, another, better socialism.

And also, of course, I knew that the German people, they’re one, and would tend to consider themselves as one; and therefore they would consider the Wall as an enforced imprisonment. And I was right in thinking that way.

And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That was part of the Cold War – and part of the winning side of the Cold War.

And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics and hampered the development of economics – and the country would fall back further and further in the economic competition with the West.

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.

I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his whole attack.

I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were two ways of doing it and they took it the radical way, the forceful way.

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