Fritz Stern quotes

Fritz Stern quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.”
-- Fritz Stern

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“Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if, as I believe, individual acts of decency and courage make a difference, then they need to be recorded and remembered.”
-- Fritz Stern

Source : Fritz Stern (2007). “Five Germanys I Have Known”, p.10, Macmillan

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