World war one Quote by Ken Follett

“Germany’s siege mentality and gnawing sense of encirclement (the need to ‘storm out of the fortress’ to prevent a Russian attack); Austria-Hungary’s hatred of…

— Paul Ham

Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the…

— Klaus Fuchs

“In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank forces- if…

— Alan Clark

Russia is not a threat to France - why should I be hostile to Russia.

— Marine Le Pen

“If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that…

— Harry S. Truman

“Actually, she had now made it extremely likely that, if Germany developed any expansionist tendencies at all, the French would be dragged into another…

— James L. Stokesbury

“Thwarted by the British and French on the world stage, Berlin decided in 1913 to concentrate Germany’s military objectives in Europe. That year Germany…

— Paul Ham

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the…

— Bernhard von Bulow

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each…

— Klaus Fuchs

Particularly from a German perspective, from a European perspective, I can only say again, Russia is our neighbor.

— Angela Merkel

“Lesson taught by History: do not fight Russians in their own territory.”

— Victor Bello Accioly