{"id":26746,"date":"2014-07-21T06:56:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T10:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26746"},"modified":"2018-01-15T18:31:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:31:28","slug":"qotd-algis-budrys-on-hitlers-impact-on-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/qotd-algis-budrys-on-hitlers-impact-on-audiences\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Algis Budrys on Hitler&#8217;s impact on audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcwillick.com\/Spacelight\/budrys.html\" target=\"_blank\">Algirdas Jonas Budrys<\/a> was born in 1931 in Lithuania, but he didn\u2019t stay there long. His father was an official in Lithuania\u2019s diplomatic corps and while A J was still small the family was posted to Konigsberg in the German province of East Prussia. A J, who had just about got a good handle on the Lithuanian language, began to learn German. His adult memories of East Prussia \u2014 which, like the rest of Germany, had been Nazified with the accession of Adolf Hitler a few years earlier \u2014 were troublesome.<\/p>\n<p>He particularly recalled Hitler himself parading right past the Budrys apartment when he was five, he told Mark Williams in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andyross.net\/budrys.htm\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> shortly before he died. \u201cAfter the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shoaheducation.com\/HJ.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hitlerjugend<\/em><\/a> walked through, Hitler came by in an open black Mercedes with his arm propped up.\u201d The crowds made \u201cindescribable\u201d sounds. Men lost control of their bowels and had to race for the bushes or writhed and rolled on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Pohl, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaythefutureblogs.com\/2010\/07\/algis-budrys\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A J&#8221;, <em>The Way The Future Blogs<\/em><\/a>, 2010-07-26<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algirdas Jonas Budrys was born in 1931 in Lithuania, but he didn\u2019t stay there long. His father was an official in Lithuania\u2019s diplomatic corps and while A J was still small the family was posted to Konigsberg in the German province of East Prussia. A J, who had just about got a good handle on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1118,7,41],"tags":[432,969,808],"class_list":["post-26746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-germany","category-history","category-quotations","tag-diplomacy","tag-hitler","tag-lithuania"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Xo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26747,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26746\/revisions\/26747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}