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“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“They had failed to understand that there was no such thing as private life in wartime Germany. No amount of reticence could change the…

— Hans Fallada

“...and, without once looking back, walk down the road through the forest. If the Germans want to shoot me, let them. I am too…

— Audie Murphy

“In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn’t like America, where we…

— janet fitch

“all major German crimes took place in areas where state institutions had been destroyed, dismantled, or seriously compromised.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Today I look at Munich and see a city empty of all significance, invaded by Prussians and stripped of its Bavarian spirit.”

— Paul Cronin

“Germans longed to be near shit, but not in it. This, as it turns out, is an excellent description of their role in the…

— Michael Lewis

“The Nazis had broken our windows and torn apart our furniture, but they had not destroyed our selves.”

— Robert Sharenow

“The Nazis had been one thing. The communists were another. But now there were academics crawling all over the palace.”

— Magnus Flyte

“So I began to dream of going back to Berlin. Yes, it had to be Berlin. It's not because it's the German town for…

— Thomas Geoghegan

“I hope that in the final settlement of the war, you insist that the Germans retain Lorraine, because I can imagine no greater burden…

— George S. Patton Jr

“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.”

— Sharon Shinn