Unlike other dictators, Stalin and his satraps never made the mistake of believing themselves beloved -- on the contrary they saw plots under every stone.
Anna ReidTags: world-war-ii soviet-union stalin leningrad
When World War II erupted, colonialism was at its apogee. The courde of the war, however, its symbolic undertones, would sow the seeds of the system's defeat and demise. [...] The central subject, the essence, the core relations between Europeans and Africans during the colonial era, was the difference of race, of skin color. Everything-each eaxchange, connection, conflict-was translated into the language of black and white. [...] Into the African was inculcated the notion that the white man was untouchable, unconquerable, that whites constitute a homogenous, cohesive force. [...] Then, suddenly, Africans recruited into the British and French armies in Europe observed that the white men were fighting one another, shooting one another, destroying one another's cities. It was revelation, a surprise, a shock.
Ryszard KapuścińskiTags: war africa world-war-ii europe colonialism
It has been reliably established that from 1933 to 1945 millions of innocent people were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chambers
were built, death camps were guarded, daily quotas of corpses were produced with the same efficiency
as the manufacture of appliances. These inhumane policies may have originated in the mind of a single
person, but they could only have been carried out on a massive scale if a very large number of people
obeyed orders.
Tags: wwii world-war-ii obedience
How many remember where they were when the war began on the 1st of September 1939?
I remember.
I should remember.
I started it.
My name is Robert Leroy Parker.
Tags: world-war-ii fiction-novel humour-noir apocalypse-then
Of course the people in the metro didn't see a thing!...what a joke! petrified ratlets! but they'll still come out to refute me! make claims!...that nothing got bombed!...squished! powdered! that the firmament was calm, and me, I imagined the whole thing! chrysanthemums, sprays, roses! why, there's no more any such thing as sky-hooking shrapnel than there is anal ice cream! it's all in my mind! hallucinations and bullshit! what a crook! but I repeat and reassert! shrapnel and fiery lace stretched from one end of the horizon to the other! with lots of glow-worms mixed in...and dancing purple fireflies...
Louis-Ferdinand CélineTags: wwii world-war-ii paris bombing
You can do anything you put your mind to doing.
Gertrude KerschnerTags: wwii world-war-ii germany adolf-hitler poland womanhood folklore femininity robert sandor ww2 national-socialism gertrude world-view world-history austria weltanschauung bdm bund-der-artamanen bund-deutscher-maedel country-service-camp ct farmers-harvest giersdorf greenwich guardian-of-the-country hirschberg hitler-youth jelenia-góra jm jungmaedel jungmaedeldienst kasperle kerschner kleinzell landjahr-lager league-of-german-girls linz lower-silesian-voivodeship neiderschlesien neo-pagan nsdap odal-rune podgórzyn reisalpe walpurgis-night wandervőgel
I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.
Sarah WatersTags: war world-war-ii
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