Monica Crowley Quotes

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

Sooner or later … peace would have to give way to a life-or-death struggle with German imperialism

The events of these last few days constitute one of the greatest defeats that this country and France have ever sustained. There can be no doubt that it is a tremendous victory for Herr Hitler.

Think of the prelude to World War Two. Think of all the countries that said, well, we don’t have enough evidence. I mean, Mein Kampf had been written. Hitler had indicated what he intended to do. The people who argued for waiting for more evidence have to ask themselves how they are going to feel at that point where another event occurs.

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake. If we had come to terms with Mussolini, as I wanted to do, we might have held Germany. That is no longer possible. We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left. I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

I cannot understand the passive response of the whole civilized world to this modem barbarism. Doesn't the world see that Hitler is aiming for war?

I now seriously ask whether an English victory would not be more desirable for our future than a German victory.

The people Hitler never understood, and whose actions, continued to exasperate him to the end of his life, were the British.

The world probably wishes that Great Britain had rebuilt its defenses and stopped Germany from reoccupying the Rhineland in 1936.

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'