“Over the coming days, one of the things that shocked the British most was the nonchalant way that the surviving prisoners lived their lives amongst the corpses, as if such sights were perfectly normal. One horrified medical officer described several… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that all the digitized announcers on the tube have names.” — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“Between 1945 and 1947 tens of millions of men, women and children were expelled from their countries in some of the biggest acts of… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“In October 1944, after more than two years of butchery between the Germans and the Soviets, the Red Army finally crossed the frontier onto German soil. The little village of Nemmersdorf bears the unhappy distinction of being the first populated place they came across, and the name of the village soon became a byword for atrocity. In a frenzy of… — Keith Lowe Copy Share
“In an extraordinary article in the Daily Express, Major R. Crisp stated that the ordinary German soldiers he used to come across had been replaced by an army of fanatical fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds who appeared incapable of anything but brutality. There is nothing that is decent, or gentle, or humble to be read in them. Everything that is beastly and… — Keith Lowe Copy Share
“In recent years there has been a tendency by some Western historians and politicians to look back at the aftermath of the Second World War through rose-tinted spectacles. Frustrated with the progress of rebuilding and reconciliation in the wake of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at the beginning of the twenty-first century, they pointed to the success of similar projects… — Keith Lowe Copy Share
“While this has never been the mainstream view in Germany, there are still political groups there today who refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust on the grounds that what Germans in eastern Europe suffered was 'exactly the same'. This is an extremely dangerous point of view. While it is true that the Polish labour camps contained some repugnant examples of extreme… — Keith Lowe Copy Share
“The first camp to be discovered in the west was the Natzweiler-Struthof camp in Alsace, which the French army entered on 23 November 1944.… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“Over the coming days, one of the things that shocked the British most was the nonchalant way that the surviving prisoners lived their lives… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“In the winter of 1941 the German army succeeded in starving between 1.3 and 1.65 million Soviet prisoners of war to death.” — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“The rationing system that was set up in Britain at the outbreak of the hostilities was as revolutionary as anything the Communists could have… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“I thought you’d be there waiting for me … What greeted me instead was the lingering stench of ashes and the empty sockets of… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“It simply was not possible to locate all the war criminals and remove all compromised leaders from positions of power, intern them, gather evidence… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
