44 Quotes About Wwii-history
- Author Andrei Cherny
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The president didn't ask me any questions. But I'm glad he didn't, because I was so shocked watching him that I don't think I could have made a sesible reply.' He turned to look Byrnes squarely in the eye. 'We've been talking to a dying man.
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- Author Jennifer Robson
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If she tried, she could recall almost all their faces, if not their names, the hundreds of men she had nursed and soothed and even, before she had lost the habit entirely, prayed for on her knees before bed each night.
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- Author Jenna Blum
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The past is past. And better it remain so.
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- Author Andrei Cherny
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Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible.
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- Author Andrei Cherny
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World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag...7,000 German troops defending the building...Nearly 5,000 men died in a battle for the building.
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- Author Andrei Cherny
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Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.
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- Author Andrei Cherny
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The agreement,' the colonel announced, 'says thirty-seven officers, fifty vehicles, and one hundred seventy five men.''What agreement?''The Berlin Agreement,
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- Author Andrei Cherny
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Doctors in 1945 would report that one of Berlin's children's favorite games was 'rape.' When they saw a man in uniform--even a Salvation Army uniform--they would start screaming hysterically.
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