Der Schlaf, den wir ersehnen, der vollkommene Schlaf, ist traumlos. Wir werden von Träumen heimgesucht, sobald wir gelernt haben, uns zu erinnern und Reue zu empfinden

"In those days the doubt entered my life or rather: broke in with tremendous power (. His father hardly concealed his disappointment and rarely mentioned the son in his diary. He wrote in his diary "I will have to pay for it as Kaiser Wilhelm did for his 'Daily Telegraph Affair'".

Golo Mann originally a Bavarian German was Czechoslovakian from 1936 on American 1943-1968 Swiss from 1968 on and additionally German since 1976. Golo Mann (27 March 1909 – 7 April 1994) born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann was a popular historian essayist and writer.