“The brutally aggressive masculinism and racism that characterised the Nazi view of society had, paradoxically, brought about a situation where the ‘ideal’ Nazi male, physically powerful, relentlessly aggressive – ‘lean and slim, quick as a greyhound, tough as leather, hard… — 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 5,000 are thought to have been killed during work on clearing minefields alone. The International Red Cross certainly considered the French, after the Russians, the most reprehensible of the major powers in their treatment of German… — 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 as routine led to an inferno and left behind a signal. What seemed capable of achievement only on paper—the coming together of favorable circumstances for the attacks—was suddenly an accomplished fact. But wasn’t that what the… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
