Wwii History Quotes

#1. Ad they entered Berlin, while still killing off the last of its German defenders, The Russians indulged in an orgy of rape and rage beyond the bounds of human Imagination. Over the course of ten days, about 130,000 women were raped

Andrei Cherny

#2. I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun.

Kara Martinelli

#3. There were several key American scientists that favorably reported on Nazi eugenics after visiting Hitler's Germany in order to provide it cover.

A.E. Samaan

#4. If she tried, she could recall almost all their faces, if not their names, the hundreds of men she had nursed and soothed and even, before she had lost the habit entirely, prayed for on her knees before bed each night.

Jennifer Robson

#5. The dangers of the sea should always take precedence
over the violence of the enemy'
Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

Ben Bryant

#6. Winston Churchill was an early proponent of eugenic legislation decades before Hitler came to power.

A.E. Samaan

#7. Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.

Judith Clancy

#8. Overriding all of them, however, was the memory of 1918, the belief that the Jews, wherever and whoever they might be, threatened to undermine the German war effort, by engaging in subversion, partisan activities, Communist resistance movements and much else besides.

Richard J. Evans

#9. When General George Patton tried to convince Eisenhower to make a push to conquer the city first, Eisenhower blithely asked, 'Well, who would want it?

Andrei Cherny

#10. American newspapers frequently offered praise for eugenics just prior to WWII and The Holocaust .... that is, until Hitler revealed what eugenics really looked like. They avoided the subject for decades thereafter.

A.E. Samaan

#11. Poor little lambs,' says one, eyeing us constantly, as if there is something wrong with us; as if we have a condition that can't be named." Pastel Orphans

Gemma Liviero

#12. World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag ... 7,000 German troops defending the building ... Nearly 5,000 men died in a battle for the building.

Andrei Cherny

#13. By ... WWII, I.G. Farben had become ... part of the most gigantic and powerful cartel of all history ... interlocking agreements ... over 2,000 of them ... In the US, the cartel had established important agreements with

G. Edward Griffin

#14. You cannot write an accurate history of The Holocaust without accounting for the Harvard students and professors that help make the science an acceptable world-wide movement.

A.E. Samaan

#15. Hitler is the rare individual who really did make history - specifically he made it worse.

John Green

#16. Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people.

Christopher Huh

#17. ...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.

James D Hornfischer

#18. Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.
- Winston S. Churchill

Ellen Brazer

#19. Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content.

James D. Bradley

#20. The Uberlingen Chief of Police Jakob Graf, was severely wounded in this explosion. It has now become questionable as to whether the weapons he collected were for the Gestapo or the invading French troops.

Hank Bracker

#21. The past is past. And better it remain so.

Jenna Blum

#22. There was nothing conservative about Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an artist and a revolutionary at heart. He wanted to completely upend and remake German society.

A.E. Samaan

#23. Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.

Andrei Cherny

#24. I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.

A.E. Samaan

#25. Memories are nice, but dreams are better.

John Anthony Miller

#26. War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can't be bettered learned in civilian life. You are exposed to horrors you would sooner forget.

Robert Graff

#27. Hitler learned his eugenics from the infamous "Baur-Fischer-Lenz" book that documented American and British eugenics.

A.E. Samaan

#28. Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.

A.E. Samaan

#29. The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.

A.E. Samaan

#30. It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.

Randall Wallace

#31. Doctors in 1945 would report that one of Berlin's children's favorite games was 'rape.' When they saw a man in uniform
even a Salvation Army uniform
they would start screaming hysterically.

Andrei Cherny

#32. The term "totalitarian" was derived from Adolf Hitler's "Total State", which was a "craddle to grave" solution that sought to micro-manage all aspects of humanity.

A.E. Samaan

#33. I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

Amy Heckerling

#34. The agreement,' the colonel announced, 'says thirty-seven officers, fifty vehicles, and one hundred seventy five men.'
'What agreement?'
'The Berlin Agreement,

Andrei Cherny

#35. Of babies born alive and in hospitals during that month of July 1945, 92 percent would die within then days.

Andrei Cherny

#36. The Russians would lose 305,000 troops in the last 42 miles approaching Berlin
about the number of American army soldiers who died in all of World War II. Of the 125,000 of Berlin's civilians who died in the Russian attack, 6,400 were suicides;

Andrei Cherny

#37. Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word "eugenics" was said only once.

A.E. Samaan

#38. Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust.

A.E. Samaan

#39. The complete Apollo team...directly involves slightly over 400,000 people...Included are some if the country's foremost scientists and engineers. This mobilization of men and resources is unprecedented in history since WWII

Martha Lemasters

#40. She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.

Clare Mulley

#41. Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible.

Andrei Cherny

#42. Only victors have stories to tell,
we the vanquished were then thought of
as cowards and weaklings whose memories
and fears should not be remembered.

Guy Sajer

#43. The president didn't ask me any questions. But I'm glad he didn't, because I was so shocked watching him that I don't think I could have made a sesible reply.' He turned to look Byrnes squarely in the eye. 'We've been talking to a dying man.

Andrei Cherny