Quotes about Wwii

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...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the w — John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where th — Louis Zamperini, Devil at My Heels
I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me. — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
Again, a conversation with the doctor. We always come back to the same point: "The church may not mix in politics." he s — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for yo — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue e — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
Yesterday the paper had a "short" summary of the places where Jews are not allowed! I can better mention where they are — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed r — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, — Ellen Brazer, Clouds Across the Sun
God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost — John Hepworth
If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls — Mervyn Peake, Collected Poems
Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the w — Kristina McMorris, The Pieces We Keep
here’s a toast to Alan Turingborn in harsher, darker timeswho thought outside the containerand loved outside the linesan — Matt Harvey
I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud. — David Brooks
My parents didn't settle for the lives their parents lived. They stepped out and up, my father lying his way into the Na — Ann Medlock
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I watched the sky as it turned from silver to grey to the colour of rain. Even the clouds tried to look the other way. — Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was hea — Kara Martinelli, My Very Dearest Anna
We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can't be a good person and say you wouldn't fight agai — Catherynne M. Valente
The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that — Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa