German Occupation Quotes

#1. The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

Gerard Debreu

#2. I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

Manuel Puig

#3. After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book "Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung" by the light of a storm lamp.

Nicolaas Bloembergen

#4. I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde, which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#5. Never were we freer than under the German Occupation.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#6. It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

Hannah Arendt

#7. The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

Mooji

#8. You see, most of your fear is in your head, Anastasia.

E.L. James

#9. The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#10. The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true. But the reasoning is dazzling.

William H Gass

#11. If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

G. M. Trevelyan

#12. pretty girl the German had danced with in a Cretan tavern during the Occupation was actually Xan in disguise.

Christopher McDougall

#13. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal - and loving us without conditions.

Eben Alexander

#14. If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.

Joseph Goebbels