Failure Quote by Charles River Editors

“For Reuter, it was the last act of the Great War and something which reduced, if it did not remove, the shame of defeat…

— Andrew Marr

“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life’s every moment caught one out in one form or another.”

— Paul Russell

“For countless Americans, Germany remains the ultimate metaphor of evil...”

— Deidre Berger

“One result of this was that Hitler’s oppression was deemed worse than that of Stalin. The narrative of the war as a triumph over…

— Peter Frankopan

“To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that Churchill was…

— Adam Kirsch

“if Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his…

— Woodrow Wilson

“A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in this world…

— Milan Kundera

“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to…

— Jim Butcher

“What a sight! This infinitely proceeding division of society into the most manifold races opposed to one another by petty antipathies, uneasy consciences and…

— Christopher Hitchens

“They had failed to understand that there was no such thing as private life in wartime Germany. No amount of reticence could change the…

— Hans Fallada