The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum – Flashcards
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Innocence- Confession
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"... she declares to the startled Moeding that at about 12:15 noon that day she shot and killed Werner Totges."
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Innocence- Actually Innocent
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"No one who knew Katharina Blum or who, in the course of the investigation, became acquainted with her character, doubted that, if she had murdered Schönner, she would have admitted it without equivocation."
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Innocence- No regret
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"She is not at all depressed: on the contrary, she seems quite happy because she is living "under the same conditions as my dear Ludwig."
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Innocence- Shooting
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"'Bang, if that's what you want,' and I pulled out the pistol and shot him then and there."
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Marginalization- Communist Katharina
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"Communist bitch"
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Marginalization- Communist couple
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"Why don't you admit that you're one of them too - and your wife most of all?"
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Marginalization- Stalinism
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"She was extremely upset with the defamation of her mother and her deceased father, who is regarded as a victim of Stalinism."
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Marginalization- Involvement
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"...Blorna may be turned down as defense counsel on grounds of his undue involvement."
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Power- Government
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"Only now did Katharina take the two issues of the News from her handbag and ask whether the government - as she put it - could not do something to protect her from this filth and to restore her lost honour."
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Power- Profession
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"There was even mention of a 'victim of his profession.'"
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Power- Destroy
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"It'll never be the same, never. They'll destroy that girl. If not the police, then the News, and when the news has finished with her it'll be the public."
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Power- Intent to murder
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"Naturally there have been a good many theories aimed at pinpointing the exact moment in time at which Katharina first formed her intention to commit a murder or devised her plan for murder and decided to carry it out."
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Power- Strong reputation
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"Even a picture of me with a woman as attractive as Katharina Blum wouldn't harm me..."
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Media- Journalists murder
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"The News behaved somewhat oddly after the murder of two of its journalists. Wild excitement! Headlines. Front page. Special editions."
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Media- Protection
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"...for what he said to Katharina as they stood by the elevator was: 'Don't touch the phone. And don't look at the news tomorrow...'"
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Media- No Limits
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"...one further pointer, therefore, be permitted: the News, which, of course, through its reporter Totges was responsible for the unquestionably premature death of Katharina's mother..."
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Media- Distortion
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"This point should be reemphasized, for one can never be sue; nor quite sure whether one has fully realized to what extent the News has slandered, lied, and distorted."
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Media-
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"'I'm not match for the News anyway' said Blorna."
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Scandalous Behavior- Beizmenne
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"Well, did he f*** you?"
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Scandalous Behavior- Phone
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"...they saw her horrified expression, saw her turn pale, heard her "You filthy bitch, you filthy cowardly bitch..."
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Scandalous Behavior- Totges = Killer
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"The person concerned - and for this there is not only evidence but his own admission - was none other than Totges, the very man who himself came to such a bloody end as the result of deliberate violence."
