“ The greatest power is Love.  It gives us resilience, the power to survive, and eventually to forgive.  My parents gave me a sense of love, optimism, and inner resources to adapt. My family lived close to the German border and we interacted with ordinary Germans.  Although my pain and anger continue because of the loss of my immediate family and extended family members, it does help to understand historically and emotionally how the German people could have followed such a man as Hitler.  Through their own sense of misery and victimization, the Germans allowed themselves to be led and to become aggressive and destructive. ”

Henry Krystal