{"quotes":[{"text":"War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.","author":"Kristina McMorris","tags":["drama","war","wwii"],"id":6346,"author_id":"Kristina+McMorris"},{"text":"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.","author":"Winston S. Churchill","tags":["history","wwii"],"id":9466,"author_id":"Winston+S.+Churchill"},{"text":"I...' He struggled to answer. 'When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds.' He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months.There was no anger or reproach.It was Papa who spoke.How did it look?'Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' he said. 'They burned by eyes.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["germany","stars","wwii"],"id":12198,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"Although Higgins's men had finally received some badly needed supplies, some of his wounded were becoming critical, and the overall health of his troops continued to ebb. Meanwhile, the price among the 442nd's battalions paid to reach Higgins's men had reached gut-wrenching levels. And for General Dahlquist, panic would supplant his anger and frustration.","author":"Scott McGaugh","tags":["442nd","dahlquist","hero","history","japanese-american","military","world-war-ii","wwii"],"id":15279,"author_id":"Scott+McGaugh"},{"text":"Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.","author":"Judith Clancy","tags":["architecture","food","history","japan","kyoto","machiya","restaurants","wwii"],"id":16172,"author_id":"Judith+Clancy"},{"text":"My parents didn't settle for the lives their parents lived. They stepped out and up, my father lying his way into the Navy when he was too young to enlist, my mother marrying this fugitive from the mills when she was too young for marriage. A smart guy, he took every course the Navy offered, aced them all, becoming the youngest chief warrant officer in the service. After Pearl Harbor the Navy needed line officers fast and my dad was suddenly wearing gold stripes.My mother watched and learned, getting good at the ways of this new world. She dressed beautifully. Our quarters were always handsomely fitted out. She and Dad were gracious, well-spoken.They were far from rich, but there were books and there was music and sometimes conversations about the world. We even listened to the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on Saturdays.Still, when I finished high school, their attitudes and the times said that there was little point in further educating a girl. I would take a clerical job until I could find the right junior officer to marry and pursue his career, as helpmeet. If I picked well and worked hard, I might someday be an admiral's wife.","author":"Ann Medlock","tags":["class","education","marriage","military","navy","pearl-harbor","wife","wwii"],"id":18324,"author_id":"Ann+Medlock"},{"text":"They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privilege to a few individuals in a state of slavery, exacting in exchange the betrayal of a natural solidarity with theircomrades, there will certainly be someone who will accept. He will be withdrawn from the common law and will become untouchable; the more power that he is given, the more he will be consequently hateful andhated. When he is given the command of a group of unfortunates, with the right of life or death over them, he will be cruel and tyrannical, because he will understand that if he is not sufficiently so, someone else, judged more suitable, will take over his post.Moreover, his capacity for hatred, unfulfilled in the direction of the oppressors, will double back, beyond all reason, on the oppressed; and he will only be satisfied when he has unloaded onto his underlings the injury received from above.","author":"Primo Levi","tags":["auschwitz","corruption","if-this-is-a-man","politics","power","primo-levi","the-holocaust","the-truce","wwii"],"id":18415,"author_id":"Primo+Levi"},{"text":"Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.","author":"Neal Stephenson","tags":["historical-fiction","humor","internet","neal","stephenson","wwii"],"id":19147,"author_id":"Neal+Stephenson"},{"text":"The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["eugenics","holocaust","holocaust-history","holocaust-survivors","immigration","jewish","jews","nazi","nazism","racism","roosevelt","scientific-racism","survivors","wwii","wwii-history"],"id":19289,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"We are living in an artificial world—a world of fantasies and illusions. We've learned beautiful phrases but haven't learned yet how to carry out that little bit that we know. Our brains are stuffed with quotations, while at the same time nine out of ten of these dogmas are incomprehensible, murky, or lies. Which are worthwhile and which are not? Yes, I must stop being false before others and myself. How simple it all seems! But how do I do this? Let just a little time pass, and then we may understand—only the simplest, honorable acts determine the value of a man. Only I myself can and must help myself to become an adult.","author":"Boris Gorbachevsky","tags":["eastern-front","german","memoir","russian","soldier","wwii"],"id":24398,"author_id":"Boris+Gorbachevsky"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":130,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}