There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“I stepped forward as commanded, wondering which of the many rules I had broken now.” — Georg Rauch Copy Share Image
“It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility.” — Rhonda Fink-Whitman Copy Share Image
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“When you are singled out for torture because of your faith, can religion still be a beacon?” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“There's one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.” — Robert Edsel Copy Share Image
“Si WWII ne peut pas nous prendre, elle~même le diable en personne ne pourra nous joindre! ( IF WWII COULDN'T TAKE US… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.” — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform. — Ed Wood Copy Share Image
“I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had… — Robert Edsel Copy Share Image
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Bernie Sanders is like those liberal members of the German National Socialist Party during the WWII, or of the Italian Fascist movement… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The fact is that many people did not – and still do not – understand that many Germans were held in the… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
“In order to hand me over she had to detach herself from herself, and afterward she never managed to get back inside… — emuna elon Copy Share Image
There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we… — Vladimir Putin 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
I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach… — Art Donovan Copy Share Image
“Two well-known Austrian folk figures, Count Rudy and Count Bobby, are standing in front of a globe and Rudy asks, "What are… — Georg Rauch Copy Share Image
“I quickly got used to being picked up by my mother, and taken to the air raid shelter near our home. Although… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“14 July 1942—Jerusalem - ...A magnificent parcel, covered in tape and seals, arrived for me from India. Inside were two pairs of… — Hermione Ranfurly Copy Share Image
“Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was… — Haynes Johnson Copy Share Image
“I remember seeing one elderly man look at us, and he held his hand out, and most frightening were his eyes, dark… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“The British air force desperately needed planes for their military, and the US had lots of planes but couldn’t sell them to… — Bill O'Neill Copy Share Image
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“I am a priest, but in this war I have been a soldier, and a soldier who has not surrendered. For I… — Etta Shiber Copy Share Image
“They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privilege to a few… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Or, obversely, he might kill a man himself. It would be a question of throwing up his rifle, pressing the trigger, and… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“In October 1941, Mahilue became teh first substantial city in occupied Soviet Belarus where almost all Jews were killed. A German (Austrian)… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“I never felt able to describe my emotional reactions when I first came face to face with indisputable evidence of Nazi brutality… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I was amongst them – the first female pilot who had got admission to the Sturmoviks…Since my childhood I’d been lucky enough… — Anna Timofeeva-Egorova Copy Share Image
“Political calculation and local suffering do not entirely explain the participation in these pogroms. Violence against Jews served to bring the Germans… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“This was a particularly spectacular example of the German campaign to gather forced labor in the East, which had begun with the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“One of the things I cannnot grasp, though I have often written about them, trying to get them into some kind of… — William Styron Copy Share Image