Key Quotes Episode 1... The Assault

Here are some key quotes from this episode:

• "Even before the catastrophe occurred, Anton used to think that Carefree meant a place where cares entered freely, not a place free from cares; just as someone could think priceless meant without cost, rather than beyond price." Prologue, p. 3
• "It was January, nineteen forty-five. Almost all of Europe had been liberated and was once more rejoicing, eating, drinking, making love, and beginning to forget the War. But every day Haarlem looked more like one of those spent grey clinkers that they used to take out of the stove, when there had still been coal to burn." First Episode, 1945, p. 9 
• “Not until people are called Adolf again will the Second World War be really behind us. But that means we’d have to have a third world war, which would mean the end of Adolfs forever.” Episode 1945, p.13
• "His mother and Peter were just in time to see them deposit the body in front of Carefree." First Episode, 1945, p. 19 
• “But what he saw then, in 1945, was different from what he would see now. The German was about forty years old and actually had that lean hardened face with the horizontal scar beneath the left cheekbone – a type no longer used except by directors of comedies or grade B movies. Today only babyish Himmler faces are still artistically acceptable; but then it was not an artistic matter, then he really did look like a fanatical Nazi, and it wasn’t funny.” Episode 1945, p.30
• “But I was scared, believe me! Perhaps even more by the silence that by the darkness. I knew that there were lots of people all about, but everything had disappeared. The world stopped at my skin. My fear had nothing to do with the War anymore.” Episode 1945, p.36
• “We hate hate itself, and for this reason our hate is better than theirs.” Episode 1945 p.38
• "He could tell by her voice that this was somehow fatal. What had happened to Peter?" First Episode, 1945, p. 40
• “A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.” Episode 1945, p43
• “The world is a Jammertal, a valley of tears. Everywhere it is the same.” Episode 1945, p44
• “Such a lot was happening! For Anton, who was still too young to absorb the past, each new event erased the preceding one from awareness and buried it in his subconscious.” Episode 1945, p47
• “It could not harm him. He was, after all, on their side, they knew that, of course – even yesterday” Episode 1945, p48
• “Chocolate! Only by hearsay did he know that it still existed. This was very like paradise.” Episode 1945, p51
• “It had all been a series of appalling mistakes!” Episode 1945, p52
• “He was sobbing but hardly knew why, as if his tears had washed away his memories.” Episode 1945, p52

For each quote explain its’ importance to the novel so far, what does it tell us about the characters, setting and themes of the novel? How is our understanding formed by the context at this stage?