Quotes About History

Historians believe that western Allied soldiers may have raped as many as eighty thousand German and ethnic German women during the last part of the war and its immediate aftermath. They believe Soviet soldiers may have raped more than one million German women in that same time period.

the world. They died in the 1980s.

Malia said, "And where were you when the mortar hit?" The rapture drained out of the corporal's face. His face clouded. His hand dropped from his heart and grabbed the bottle of honey wine. After pouring a generous slug into his mouth, he swallowed it, shivered, and stared at them all with a haunted expression. "Stalingrad," he said. "The Elbow of the Don.

They found the Jews, bound their wrists and ankles, and threw them into Lake Maggiore, where they were machine-gunned to death.

Standartenführer Walter Rauff,

Forgotten Front." Much of the amnesia was caused by Italians who'd

It's where they take every Jew they catch in Milan. Platform Twenty-One in the central station. They put them into cattle cars, and they disappear, bound for . . . no one knows. They don't come back.

More than eighty thousand Red Army soldiers would die in the next ten days, wresting Berlin from Nazi control.

Platform 21 was where Jews disappeared on trains heading north.

Zines are not a new idea. They have been around under different names (ChapBooks, Pamphlets, Flyers). People with independent ideas have been getting their word out since there were printing presses.

Operation Blue Star

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

There is no architecture in New Orleans, except in the cemeteries.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.

History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history.

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

Most people are dead. Hitler. Ray Charles. Some other guys. But mostly those two.

Our first stop was red square, the heart of Moscow - if Moscow has one.