Let me explain how such a thing might occasionally happen,' Goebbels said. 'All during the twelve years of the Weimar Republic our people were virtually in jail. Now our party is in charge and they are free again. When a man has been in jail for twelve years and he is suddenly freed, in his joy he may do something irrational, perhaps even brutal. Is that not a possibility in your country also?'
Ebbutt, his voice even, noted a fundamental difference in how England might approach such a scenario. 'If it should happen,' he said, 'we would throw the man right back in jail.
Tag: history wwii nazi-germany
Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.
Clare MulleyTag: wwii cruelty sacrifice biography spies second-world-war soe christine-granville krystyna-skarbek special-agent
For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.
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When he came he first covered me with his revolver', Christine write in her official report, but it was not long before Waem put the gun down on the table between them.
Clare MulleyTag: wwii spies second-world-war christine-granville krystyna-skarbek secret-agents french-occupation
Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great.
Clare MulleyTag: wwii murder obsession resistance biography possession spies second-world-war christine-granville krystyna-skarbek special-agents
She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.
Clare MulleyTag: wwii courage biography spy dynamite military-history second-world-war soe krystyna-skarbek special-agent christine-graville sir-owen-o-malley
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.
Tag: wwii world-war-ii obedience
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.
Tag: politics history wwii violence soldiers
A day came when I should have died,
and after than nothing seemed very important,
so I stayed as I am, without regret
separated from the normal human condition.
Tag: politics history wwii violence soldiers
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
Tag: history wwii sea maritime ships ww2 submarine royal-navy naval
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