ww2

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
f52cc96	That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.	story history inspirational ww2 russian world-war-ii pessimism jews russia jewish	David Benioff
932e9e6	It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.	ww2 holocaust	Elie Wiesel
dbddd68	Nonetheless the man (Hitler) had a remarkable ability to transform himself into something far more compelling, especially when speaking in public or during private meetings when some topic enraged him. He had a knack as well for projecting an aura of sincerity that blinded onlookers to his true motives and beliefs..	nazi ww2 hitler	Erik Larson
37c714d	In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.	war journalist world-war-2 ww2	Malcolm Lowry
04a1c09	My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part.	creon part-to-play ww2 france	Jean Anouilh
9aa0564	First, people tolerate evil because they see some benefit to themselves,' he said. 'Then, they feed it in hope that it will turn into something else. Then, they appease it in hope that it will not turn against them. Then, they respect it because they fear it. Finally, someone has to step up and stamp it out! (...)	ww2	Walter Dean Myers
f76c71a	Lately the commandant speaks more and more intimately of the fuhrer and the latest thing- prayers, petroleum, loyalty- that he requires. The fuhrer requires trustworthiness, electricity, boot leather. Werner is beginning to see, approaching his sixteenth birthday, that what the fuhrer really requires is boys. Great rows of them walking to the conveyor belt to climb on. Give up cream for the fuhrer, sleep for the fuhrer, aluminum for the fuhrer. Give up Reinhard Wohlmann's father and Karl Westerholzer's father and Martin Burkhard's father.	anthony-doerr ww2 wwii	Anthony Doerr
5baff07	Nothing at all to change: what a thing to want in the midst of war.	war ww2	Julie Orringer
33eb5ec	When they get in trouble, they send for the sons-of-bitches	saipan ww2	James D. Hornfischer
40d3a16	"The names of the list mean something. Every one. They mean something to me." "Everyone means something to someone."	names ww2	Julie Orringer
4c886c1	We soldiers knew next to nothing about what was going on in the centres of power. We received so many orders and counter-orders that there were times when we did not obey any of them at all, knowing that they were likely to be countermanded almost immediately.	war ww2-books ww2 soldiers	Louis de Bernières

f52cc96

That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.

story history inspirational ww2 russian world-war-ii pessimism jews russia jewish

David Benioff

932e9e6

It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.

ww2 holocaust

Elie Wiesel

dbddd68

Nonetheless the man (Hitler) had a remarkable ability to transform himself into something far more compelling, especially when speaking in public or during private meetings when some topic enraged him. He had a knack as well for projecting an aura of sincerity that blinded onlookers to his true motives and beliefs..

nazi ww2 hitler

Erik Larson

37c714d

In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.

war journalist world-war-2 ww2

Malcolm Lowry

04a1c09

My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part.

creon part-to-play ww2 france

Jean Anouilh

9aa0564

First, people tolerate evil because they see some benefit to themselves,' he said. 'Then, they feed it in hope that it will turn into something else. Then, they appease it in hope that it will not turn against them. Then, they respect it because they fear it. Finally, someone has to step up and stamp it out! (...)

ww2

Walter Dean Myers

f76c71a

Lately the commandant speaks more and more intimately of the fuhrer and the latest thing- prayers, petroleum, loyalty- that he requires. The fuhrer requires trustworthiness, electricity, boot leather. Werner is beginning to see, approaching his sixteenth birthday, that what the fuhrer really requires is boys. Great rows of them walking to the conveyor belt to climb on. Give up cream for the fuhrer, sleep for the fuhrer, aluminum for the fuhrer. Give up Reinhard Wohlmann's father and Karl Westerholzer's father and Martin Burkhard's father.

anthony-doerr ww2 wwii

Anthony Doerr

5baff07

Nothing at all to change: what a thing to want in the midst of war.

war ww2

Julie Orringer

33eb5ec

When they get in trouble, they send for the sons-of-bitches

saipan ww2

James D. Hornfischer

40d3a16

"The names of the list mean something. Every one. They mean something to me." "Everyone means something to someone."

names ww2

Julie Orringer

4c886c1

We soldiers knew next to nothing about what was going on in the centres of power. We received so many orders and counter-orders that there were times when we did not obey any of them at all, knowing that they were likely to be countermanded almost immediately.

war ww2-books ww2 soldiers

Louis de Bernières