231 Quotes About World-war-ii

In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others.

I was mentally prepared to sustain serious injury or death, but before that day I never contemplated the reality of being captured by the enemy. I thought, "This is going to be hard on the folks," only to realize that I actually verbalized my thought out loud.As the English-speaking officer and I walked side by side, he said, "War is terrible, isn't it?

[...] during one train stop, I watched as another guard with a spirit of empathy, ran out into an apple orchard and picked apples. He carried his jacket like a bag and filled it with apples. The kind German came to our open train window and handed us each an apple. The juicy apple tasted so delicious. I so appreciated that apple and his unusual compassion.

The "herrenvolk" [master race] are all around you, threading their way on their bicycles between the piles of rubble or rushing off with jugs and buckets to meet the water cart. It is queer to think that these are the people who once ruled Europe, from the Channel to the Caspian Sea and might have conquered our own island, if they had known how weak we were.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

Alas, all that sound and fury disguised the fact that on Omaha Beach at least, the bombs fell too long, the rockets fell too short, and the naval gunfire was too brief.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

The person with the bleeding finger doesn't hurt less for the person next to him with the bleeding arm.