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Lotze is a German artist whose artistic style is informed by the political ideology of Fascism. He meets Baynes on a rocket and—to Baynes’ horror—tries to bond over their racial “close[ness].” Lotze embodies the “psychotic streak” in Nazi thinking, in which the world is reduced to questions of racial purity and anti-Semitism.
Alex Lotze Quotes in The Man in the High Castle
The The Man in the High Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Alex Lotze or refer to Alex Lotze. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3 Quotes
Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre. Not of honorable men but of Ehre itself, honor; the abstract is real, the actual is invisible to them. Die Gute, but not good men, this good man. It is their sense of space and time. They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fatal to life […] What they do not comprehend is man’s helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen.
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Alex Lotze Character Timeline in The Man in the High Castle
The timeline below shows where the character Alex Lotze appears in The Man in the High Castle. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3
...a Swede and that he does not speak German; the German, an artist named Alex Lotze, is shocked by this fact. Baynes tells Lotze that he works in “plastics” and “polyesters,”...
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Lotze thinks the San Francisco baseball stadium is hideous—he comments that looks “as if it was...
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As they prepare to leave the rocket, Baynes tells Lotze that he is Jewish—something he has never told anyone before. Baynes explains that he has...
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