“I thought you’d be there waiting for me … What greeted me instead was the lingering stench of ashes and the empty sockets of our ruined home. Samuel Puterman on his return to Warsaw, 1945” — 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… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“In an extraordinary article in the Daily Express, Major R. Crisp stated that the ordinary German soldiers he used to come across had been… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“In recent years there has been a tendency by some Western historians and politicians to look back at the aftermath of the Second World… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“While this has never been the mainstream view in Germany, there are still political groups there today who refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust on… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“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
