"You can't just make them disappear"

"'It's the anti-Jewish propaganda that is so wicked.'

'I don't give that any attention.'

'You won't forget that your daughter, Helena, is half Jewish, will you, Peter?'

'It's just their strategy.  Pauli knows these people, and he says that it's only for vote-catching.  Everyone knows that the anti-Jewish nonsense will all be dropped if they get any nearer to a majority in the Reichstag.  In the coming year they'll begin to eliminate it from the program.'

'What program?  They haven't got a program, except hating the Jews.'

'Nothing is going to happen to the Jews, Lottie.  Don't get upset on that account.  Look around you: the German economy would collapse without the Jews.'

'But do the Nazis know that?'

Peter looked at his wife with concern.  He hadn't realized how much the Nazi propaganda affected her.  It was, of course, the presence in Berlin of her parents.  Suddenly she was having to explain to them things she'd previously avoided thinking about.  'Well, anyway,' said Peter in an effort to relax her and end these childish fears.  'How can they get rid of the Jews?  They're Germans; they live here, don't they?  You can't just make them disappear.'"

-- Len Deighton, Winter