Quote by Chris Carpenter

“A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“Home is what you kill for. And I killed for Swift.”

— Emily Skrutskie

“An American pilot flying a Spad VII swooped low and dropped a bomb over their position. Walter was hit and badly wounded. He clutched…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue eyes were…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street.…

— Stephen King

“In October 1941, Mahilue became teh first substantial city in occupied Soviet Belarus where almost all Jews were killed. A German (Austrian) policeman wrote…

— Timothy Snyder

“But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky lapwing hitting…

— Elizabeth Wein

I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“Today I look at Munich and see a city empty of all significance, invaded by Prussians and stripped of its Bavarian spirit.”

— Paul Cronin

“Drakulić titled her book “They Would Never Hurt a Fly,” after Arendt’s description of a typical Nazi functionary who “does not regard himself as…

— Adam Kirsch

“I came across an account of a young man named Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was eventually captured and executed by the Nazis when he was…

— Lois Lowry