How we cite our quotes: (Paragraph)
Quote #4
"[T]wo or three adjectives in Fraktur were enough to persuade Julius Rothe of Hladik's preeminence, and therefore that he should be put to death – pour encourager les autres. (2)
Jaromir's "crime" – of being a prominent Jewish intellectual – is, under Nazi rule, enough to have him put to death. Ugh.
Quote #5
That delay (whose importance the reader will soon discover) was caused by the administrative desire to work impersonally and deliberately, as vegetables do, or planets. (2)
This sentence is a little strange. We expect that condemning someone to death would be a really personal act: it's not at all like the growth of a vegetable, or the orbit of a planet. But that's how the Nazis in this story try to treat the execution of Jewish people – like the operation of a machine, or an act of nature.