Quote by Joseph E. Persico

“It’s a common slander of the Jews, but it’s no slander of a huge fraction of the Germans. They went like sheep to the…

— Martin Amis

“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

“The End of World War One Out of the scraped surface of the land men began to emerge, like puppies from the slit of…

— Sharon Olds

“Waving his arm over the carnage, the German remarked that the American attack that morning had been a “foolish affair.” He himself had known…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.”

— Sam Kean

“Precautionary measure. With those words any deaths could be justified. Better to destroy your own people than there be a chance a German soldier…

— Tom Rob Smith

“The Soviet officers and soldiers deployed to Germany scavenged whatever they could acquire—blue jeans, pornography, and even weapons—to sell or barter on the black…

— Steven Lee Myers

“The compartment was now completely full. Looking out to the passageway through the inside window, I could see a German soldier standing in the…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

“Suddenly, four or five soldiers with round helmets and guns in hand enter the courtyard. One of them, presumably the commander, knocks hard on…

— Mary Louise Roberts

He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was…

— Libba Bray

“The Germans have removed, murdered or burned alive tens of thousands of Jews. Out of the three million Polsih Jews, no more than 10…

— Diane Ackerman

“It was the Battle of the Somme—or what the Germans, who suffered massive casualties as well, referred to in letters home as “the bath…

— David Grann