Paul Virilio Quotes

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that period carefully now thinks different things on different days.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War.

In France, when there was a war, we fought and our ancestors fought, though many had real reason to flee the Germans.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

I was 8 years old in the spring of 1945 when my family fled Silesia to escape the Russian army. On our way, we passed through Dresden. A few days later, it was firebombed. The fire was so bright that night that one could read a newspaper from the light, though we were many kilometers away.

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

When France fell before the Nazi onslaught, in the midst of total war, Mr. Churchill offered union with England to the French. That was indeed a stroke of inspired statesmanship. But when it comes to India? Oh no! Constitutional changes in the midst of a war? Absolutely unthinkable ... The object this time is to free India before the Japanese can come and be ready to fight them if they come. They will round up the leaders, round up all. Then it will be the duty of every Indian to put forth his utmost effort—within non-violence. No source is to be left untapped; no weapon untried. This is going to be the opportunity of a lifetime.

No, but the Germans have been to France twice in my lifetime.

The Czechoslovakian partition amounted to the complete surrender of the Western Democracies to the Nazi threat of force.

During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the blitz, the air-raid sirens went off every night for 30 nights, and each time, my parents would grab my sister and me and take us to the shelter beneath Whitechapel underground station.

I spent two and a half years in the Philippines in World War II.

I studied history at university, so I'm always quite fascinated by the Second World War and France. That's one of my interests.

For me, the making of a documentary to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain was an intensely personal journey. I was born in February 1940, so I was just six months old as the battle raged overhead.