Kate Forsyth Quotes

So many men have been lost on the Polish front that we need replacements. There are plenty of girls in Germany who will sleep with SS men to provide soldiers for the Fuhrer.

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

The communists are our allies in this war. That's the Nazis we are fighting. Go look at them.

Those years when Poland was occupied by the Nazis was one of the darkest time in Poland's history.

In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in a country of 550,000 square kilometres... If the Germans had carried out mass executions across the country as the received wisdom would have it, then there wouldn't have been any need for concentration camps for political deportees.

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

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

It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.

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

If D-Day - the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken - failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn't an option.

Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France.

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

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

Germany stays and falls with the success of the policy of Hitler.

You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

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.

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.

The figure of Pierre Laval hung like an evil shadow over Vichy.