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Golo Mann , born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a German popular historian, essayist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann.Golo Mann, originally a Bavarian German, held Czechoslovakian citizenship from 1936 on, American 1943–68, Swiss from 1968 on and additionally German since 1976. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. March 1909 – 7. April 1994
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Famous Golo Mann Quotes

“Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.”

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Golo Mann in his Recollections, quoted in: Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1989), Thomas Mann and his family, p. 187.

“Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.”

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Golo Mann. Thomas Mann and His Family, cited in: Robert Andrews (2003), The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations. p. 1137.

“We cannot have another world war. War is the wrong word. We should ban the term ‘World War III’ and say instead apocalypse or holocaust.”

Golo Mann

Hamburg’s Die Zeit, August 30, 1985. cited in: The Watchtower, 2/15 1986.

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