People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.

Quote by W. G. Sebald

(Die Ausgewanderten. Ein Elementargedicht) English ed. 2002
1990 Vertigo.

(Winfried Georg) "Max" Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001) was a German writer and academic. W. G.