Adam Hochschild

“In June 1940, immediately after France surrendered to the invading Nazis, Rieber and Westrick took part in a celebratory dinner in a…

— Adam Hochschild

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority…

— Adam Hochschild

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy…

— Adam Hochschild

“Forgetting one’s participation in mass murder is not something passive; it is an active deed. In”

— Adam Hochschild

“of white men they are branded with a red-hot”

— Adam Hochschild

“Two missionaries found one post where prisoners were killed by having resin poured over their heads, then set on fire. The list…

— Adam Hochschild

“When another American, Francis Ford Coppola, tried to put the blood lust of that war on film, where did he turn for…

— Adam Hochschild

“Its monarch, the ManiKongo, was chosen by an assembly of clan leaders. Like his European counterparts, he”

— Adam Hochschild

“today’s Namibia. The killing there was masked by no smokescreen of talk about philanthropy. It was genocide, pure and simple, starkly announced…

— Adam Hochschild

“Michael Herr, the most brilliant reporter of the Vietnam War, captures the same frenzy in the voice of one American soldier he…

— Adam Hochschild

“Earp forced Kowalsky into a back room, pulled out a revolver, and told the lawyer to get ready to meet his maker.…

— Adam Hochschild

“Colonialism was also justified by an elaborate ideology, embodied in everything from Kipling’s poetry and Stanley’s lectures to sermons and books about…

— Adam Hochschild

“Whenever Mosley was heckled at one of his rallies, he stopped speaking and searchlights focused on the heckler as jackbooted men beat…

— Adam Hochschild

“So many engineers were seized that factories came to a halt; so many railway men died that some trains did not run;…

— Adam Hochschild

“In Berlin, there are no museums or monuments to the slaughtered Hereros, and in Paris and Lisbon no visible reminders of the…

— Adam Hochschild

“During and after the war, though, no one in the Allied countries wanted to be reminded that, only a decade or two…

— Adam Hochschild

I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political…

— Adam Hochschild

I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in…

— Adam Hochschild

I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.

— Adam Hochschild

“I do not agree with you that England and America are the two great humanitarian powers. . . . [They are] materialistic first and humanitarian…

— Adam Hochschild

“In any system of terror, the functionaries must first of all see the victims as less than human, and Victorian ideas about…

— Adam Hochschild

“as in Leopold’s colony, both the French territories and the German Cameroons were wracked by long, fierce rebellions against the rubber regime.…

— Adam Hochschild

“Just as terrorizing people is part of conquest, so is forcing someone else to administer the terror.*”

— Adam Hochschild

“The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were”

— Adam Hochschild