Camps Quote by Martha Gellhorn Download Open image “There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.” — Martha Gellhorn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Camps Concentration Concentration camp Concentration Camps France Ten
In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in a country… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
“Vichy officials and collaborationists imprisoned 135,000 people (many for little more than their political beliefs), sent 650,000 more to Germany as “guest workers” under… — Michael Neiberg Copy Share Image
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“At least 30,000, possibly more, German POWs may have died in French captivity, of starvation and malnutrition, of disease and neglect and mistreatment. Around 5,000 are thought to have been killed during work on clearing minefields alone. The International Red Cross certainly considered the French, after the Russians, the most reprehensible of the major powers in their treatment of German… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share
“The organization of the camps in the east revealed a contempt for life, the life of Slavs and Asians and Jews anyway, that made such mass starvation thinkable. In German prisoner-of-war camps for Red Army soldiers, the death rate over the course of the war was 57.5 percent. In the first eight months after Operation Barbarossa, it must have been… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“The concentration camps were a laboratory for the Nazis. They put the minorities and intellectuals in there because the general population wouldn't mind losing… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The first camp to be discovered in the west was the Natzweiler-Struthof camp in Alsace, which the French army entered on 23 November 1944. Natzweiler-Struthof was one of the principal Nacht und Nebel camps – those institutions that were designed to make suspected Resistance fighters disappear into the ‘night and fog’. Here the French discovered a small gas chamber, where… — Keith Lowe Copy Share
“On May 21, 1941, Camp de Schirmeck, Natzweiler-Struthof, located 31 miles southwest of Strasbourg in the Vosges Mountains, was opened as the only Nazi… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order. — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
“The fact is that many people did not – and still do not – understand that many Germans were held in the concentration camps… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment of their inmates, was all the more characteristic as the selection of the groups was left exclusively to the initiative of the totalitarian regimes: if the Nazis put a person in a concentration camp and if he made… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
After World War II there were many Jews who remained in refugee camps...President Harry F. Truman called for the Harrison Commission to investigate the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“This was not the velvet embracing desert sky at El Geneina; this was infinite space. The idea of no boundaries, no end, is terrifying… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp… — Allison Silverman Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't… — Rick Rowley Copy Share Image
A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . .… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
[10 Things I Hate About You] was the most fun I ever had making a movie. Everyone got along really, really well from day… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image