Camps Quote by Charles Guggenheim

“There were stories that the tunnels went for miles. There were monsters down there, blind reptiles and insects that had never seen the light,…

— Denis Johnson

“Prisoners of war from many lands came together that morning at such and such a place in Dresden. It had been decreed that here…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The handful of Germans who had reached the trench had been sacrificed for the stupid sort of fun called. Strategy, probably. Stupid! . .…

— Ford Madox Ford

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections of concentration…

— Octavia E. Butler

“We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)”

— Max Hastings

“I am keenly aware that the security we enjoy is frail, and could easily be disrupted. Secretly, a nagging fear gnaws at me: what…

— Daniel Waterman

“The German settlers would defend Europe itself at the Ural Mountains, against the Asiatic barbarism that would be forced back to the east. Strife…

— Timothy Snyder

“Thousands died in internment, where hardships and brutalities often far exceeded those experienced during the Nazi regime. Note”

— Ingrid Dixon

“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

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

— Daniel Barenboim

“when the Americans liberated Ohrdruf, one of Buchenwald’s sub-camps. Ohrdruf is particularly important because General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in…

— Keith Lowe