Quotes from Roger Moorhouse

As historians, we have to remind ourselves that yesterday was once tomorrow.

Indeed, it occasionally seems as if the book has attempted to inoculate itself against the prospect of actually being read.

While the Germans were unleashing a race war in the west of Poland, the Soviets imported class war to the east in the Red Army's baggage train.

I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth.