“It is not enough to say, simply, the motherland called and we fought; woe to the dead, and to the living goes… — A.H. Septimius Copy Share Image
What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today! — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston… — Stuart Finlay Copy Share Image
“The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy” — Ben Bryant Copy Share Image
Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I didn't know then that the sweet life could be like honeysuckle smothering a barbed-wire fence.” — Anne Lovett Copy Share Image
“Current interventions in use with children include psycho-pharmacological treatments, play therapy, psychological debriefing and testimony therapy, but this was Nazi Germany in 1945!” — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“They died. Along with three other men who had joined our group. We were betrayed. The porter had told his girlfriend about… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Within minutes we had left the station and were entering a cutting with trees on both sides, so the horror of the… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“First, people tolerate evil because they see some benefit to themselves,' he said. 'Then, they feed it in hope that it will… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“You know what, BB? We’ve got dark spots on our souls. We have to live with that. War is not about doing… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“In spite of all the terrible things that happened to me, I did not allow Hitler to make me feel less than… — Jack Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
“One day, I noticed that my father’s uniform had changed from a smart, light green colour with silver edging on the shoulder… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“The train, I was later told by my mother, only had about ten carriages to it, and there were hundreds of people… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“After months of rumors, inference, and horrible miscalculations, the impossible had happened. The U.S. Pacific fleet lay twisted anad burning at the… — Joyce Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“I do recall hearing a conversation in our home in Strausberg, between my mother and my father, where my mother sounded very… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all...that life at any price has no value whatever; that life… — Eve Curie Labouisse Copy Share Image
“Inside my carriage there was mass panic and I was in danger of being trampled, but somebody picked me off the floor,… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Whether my feelings were right or not, every day I felt relieved he was wounded. I was relieved he limped because he… — Jessica Glasner Copy Share Image
“One woman, called Eva, used to visit my mother and sometimes we would call in next door to visit her. Sometimes Frau… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939… — Donald Saunders Copy Share Image
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because words form the foundation of society. Ideas create culture. Control them, and you can control . . . everything.” — Roseanna M. White Copy Share Image
Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“I heard people talking about what this Red Army did to any Germans they captured, and this only added to my fears.” — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood 'above the world' in an environment… — Heinz Linge Copy Share Image
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
“A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed.… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of… — Eric Newby Copy Share Image
“But you never knew where the bombs would fall in the dark, so night bombing was even more frightening than daylight bombing.… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“I look at my mother, connected by a breath of glimmering hope, her red and shadowed eyes reveal that some element of… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“People change sides. You’ve always been a dirty piece of shit cop. You can be bought, Verner!” “Just like you, Ingrid. Just… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“That pistol I gave you is a piece of crap. You can’t hit anything with it, not at that distance.” Staring at… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive;… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image