“The two of them inspected a street barricade being built by the city’s would-be defenders and decided that it would take the approaching Soviet tanks fifteen minutes to demolish it – ‘fourteen minutes for the tank crew to stop laughing,… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share Image
“At least 30,000, possibly more, German POWs may have died in French captivity, of starvation and malnutrition, of disease and neglect and mistreatment. Around… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share
“Götz Bergander, son of Dresden, eyewitness to its suffering, and the first objective historian of its destruction, summed up succinctly but tellingly: What began… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share
“The most important issues are the recovery and removal of oil seeds, oil cake, and only then the removal of grain.” — Frederick Taylor Copy Share
“The brutally aggressive masculinism and racism that characterised the Nazi view of society had, paradoxically, brought about a situation where the ‘ideal’ Nazi male,… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share
“The two of them inspected a street barricade being built by the city’s would-be defenders and decided that it would take the approaching Soviet… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share
“raving maniacs, half paralysed with hunger and fear’. In collaboration with an UNRRA team, the soldiers took over a former Napola School at Feldafing,… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share
“By the beginning of 1946, there were plenty of indications that Stalin was not going to cooperate with the Anglo-Americans, however, and not just… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share
“In Göttingen, after the Americans took the town but before they established full control, mobs composed of women, the elderly and teenagers too young… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share
“Kurt Schumacher, the Hanover-based anti-Nazi who quickly became the leading figure in the post-war Social Democratic Party, was outraged. ‘Wir sind kein Negervolk’ (‘We… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share
