Fritz Stern Quotes

• [T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

  Fritz Stern

  Past, Two, History

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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

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

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

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