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“They exchanged notes, like children. My grandfather made his out of newspaper clippings and dropped them in her woven baskets, into which he knew…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“A few days later, from a wall along the river, Martha Gellhorn watched the Soviet troops move on. ‘The army came in like a…

— Geert Mak

“Standing there, watching them, it occurred to me that when Hitler watched Joe and the boys fight their way back from the rear of…

— Daniel James Brown

“Indeed, in the huge opening battles to come, hundreds of thousands of German youths would hurl themselves at the French, British and Russian lines…

— Paul Ham

The Germans, a race eager for war.

— Seneca the Younger

“August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Went swimming in the afternoon.”

— Franz Kafka

“Ah, I see your point. I did assist on the Okinawa drop, as the British representative. Quite simple, after we’d seen the Berlin effects.…

— Gregory Benford

“The historical significance of the fact that we were going out on a joint raid with German Special Operations was lost on none of…

— Brandon Webb

“Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.”

— Andrei Cherny

“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

“The die was cast. It was a proud day for the Milligan family as I was taken from the house. "I'm too young to…

— Spike Milligan

“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced into the…

— Johann Baptist Metz