Ruth Reichl Quotes

The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

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 estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's easy to think we know exactly what happened.

I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

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.

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

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.

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.

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and Churchill are meeting face to face in this war.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.