343 Quotes About Wwii

A great cheer rose from the islands, drifting up to the puzzled sailors aboard the North Carolina. Why are they cheering for us? We haven’t done anything. But it was the promised of what they could do, would do, that brought the cheers. They felt humbled, proud, scared, determined.

A chap wouldn’t hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.

Eugenics is not just a tool of totalitarianism. Eugenics, as it was conceived, could not be anything but totalitarian as it desired to control all aspects of society. Hitler’s “National Socialist” (Nationalsozialist) form of government was amongst the first to put the full force of its government to conduct compulsory health initiatives. It is by no coincidence that the Dachau concentration camp used its slave-labor to run the largest organic produce farm of the era.

You hide a Jew. You pay. Somehow or other, you must.

A very important man used to visit her sometimes, and I met him too. He loved children and used to dandle me on his knee. This was how the title came about for this book, Uncle Hitler, although in the old German tradition, I called him Uncle Adolf, even though I was not related to him. This was a sign of respect to an older person, which is why I called Frau Eva ‘Aunty Eva’.

For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.

She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.

When he came he first covered me with his revolver', Christine write in her official report, but it was not long before Waem put the gun down on the table between them.

You have amazing gifts. Don't squander them. Don't give them out meaninglessly, don't abuse them, don't take them for granted. You are the weapon you carry with you till the day you die.-Tatiana and Alexander