Berlin-after-war Quote by Andrei Cherny

“Ad they entered Berlin, while still killing off the last of its German defenders, The Russians indulged in an orgy of rape and rage…

— Andrei Cherny

“Behind my office, to the south-east, was Police Headquarters, and I imagined all the good hard work that was being done there to crack…

— Philip Kerr

“They could not see the sprawling Sachsenhausen concentration camp under construction that summer just north of Berlin, where before long more than two hundred…

— Daniel James Brown

“Berlin, April 22, 1945. That afternoon, with the Soviet front lines just a few miles away, the Führer held a final conference with his…

— Alex Kershaw

“I once conjured up this image of Hitler. I imagined that he didn’t kill himself and that he was kept in a kind of…

— Glenn Haybittle

“Then a state-sponsored play out of Berlin begins: a story of invaders sneaking into a village at night. All twelve children sit riveted. In…

— Anthony Doerr

“When I was in Berlin then, Nazism did not have the reputation it has now. Nazism? In every system in the world, you can…

— Robert Fisk

“Germany was being run by a loudmouthed rabble-rouser, bent on baiting other nations to war and making life miserable for countless innocent citizens. And…

— Jessica Shattuck

“The Doctor: Amazing. Nancy: What is? The Doctor: 1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the…

— Steven Moffat

“The Germans are not a race of psychopaths, Alma. They’re normal people like you and me, but with fanaticism, power, and impunity, anyone can…

— Isabel Allende

One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over the rough…

— Rudolf Hoss

“Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.”

— Sam Kean