History Quote by John Green

In Hitler the rare union has taken place between the most acute logical thinker and truly profound philosopher, and the iron man of action...I…

— Hermann Goring

“I look at my mother, connected by a breath of glimmering hope, her red and shadowed eyes reveal that some element of our whole…

— Alfred Nestor

“I quickly got used to being picked up by my mother, and taken to the air raid shelter near our home. Although frightening, this…

— Alfred Nestor

“I do recall hearing a conversation in our home in Strausberg, between my mother and my father, where my mother sounded very angry that…

— Alfred Nestor

“I heard people talking about what this Red Army did to any Germans they captured, and this only added to my fears.”

— Alfred Nestor

“As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive; all the…

— Alfred Nestor

“He loved children and used to dandle me on his knee. This was how the title came about for this book, Uncle Hitler, although…

— Alfred Nestor

“The fact is that many people did not – and still do not – understand that many Germans were held in the concentration camps…

— Alfred Nestor

“Later, I started to understand just why these children ‘hated’ us other children. I understood that they did not, in fact, hate ‘us’, but…

— Alfred Nestor

“But the public did not know the truth about what happened to the people in the trucks; they believed the stories from the government,…

— Alfred Nestor

“Make government the herder of the flock, and the herder will cull the undesirable sheep.”

— A.E. Samaan

“Children accept the conditions they are born into, and, to a degree, I was getting used to the bombings, fires, and death around me.…

— Alfred Nestor