Second world war Quote by Jack Goldstein

The British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb, we sent…

— George Friedman

The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb…

— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

“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

“In fact, it took the resources of three countries to produce the bomb: the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. But there was more…

— Gregory Benford

Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

— Albert Einstein

One can only repeat about air warfare: we are in a position of almost hopeless inferiority and must grin and bear it as we…

— Joseph Goebbels

“Through the overcast sky, I looked up and saw the tin-can planes. I watched their stomachs open and drop the bombs casually out. They…

— Markus Zusak

“The war in Europe was over. Germans called it die Stunde Null, zero hour. Cities lay in ruins. Allied bombing had destroyed more than…

— Annie Jacobsen

One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it…

— Kate Forsyth

The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them that the…

— Werner Heisenberg

One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

— Gunter Grass

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the…

— Winston Churchill