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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3152740, member: 39&quot;]You are not mistaken. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; That is from Schiller&#039;s &quot;Wilhelm Tell&quot;, and an old Swiss nobleman says that to his son or nephew. At that stage, the younger man admires the powerful Austrian rulers while the elder is on the people&#039;s side so to say.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, in the Tell drama, Schiller also wrote about the &quot;power of tyrants&quot; that makes resistance legitimate. At least initially many nazis liked the concept of heroic figures fighting against evil oppressors, but in the early 1940s Hitler changed his mind. Wilhelm Tell was not shown in theaters any more, school libraries suddenly did not have the book ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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