Golo Mann

thumb|Golo Mann, 1978 Golo Mann (27 March 1909 – 7 April 1994), born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular historian, essayist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann. Quotes “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.” Hamburg’s Die Zeit, August 30, 1985. cited in: The Watchtower, 2/15 1986. Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible. Golo Mann. Thomas Mann and His Family, cited in: Robert Andrews (2003), The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations. p. 1137. Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. Golo Mann in his Recollections, quoted in: Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1989), Thomas Mann and his family, p. 187. External links Category:Essayists from Germany Category:Jews from Germany Category:Historians from Germany Category:LGBT people Category:1909 births Category:1994 deaths Category:People from Munich