“Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.” Quote by Manfred Rommel
“[Erwin Rommel] explained why in short words, what the two generals' message and then he explained his position and he gave some reason for his position. And then he said, "The ten minutes are over, and I have to leave now." Then my father said goodbye. He also told that us that in I think twenty or thirty minutes, I don't remember, "You will get a telephone call telling you that I have died of stroke."” ThinkingSaidTwoReasonRememberFatherMinutesPositionTenMessagesDiedTwentiesThirtyGoodbyeStrokesTelephonesRemember YouRemembers YouShort WordsRommel Author:Manfred Rommel
“I remember when I was in the prisoner camp, I was a French prisoner. And I saw the first photograph from the concentration camps, and we discussed it with other prisoners. And our feeling was we did not only lose the war, we lost also our honor.” FirstsWarFeelingsRememberLostLosesSawsHonorPhotographConcentrationPrisonerCampsRemember WhenConcentration Camp Author:Manfred Rommel
“[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans.” MeanMilitaryAchievementEuropeAdversariesD Day Author:Manfred Rommel
“This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this. I don't see a reasonable place for the Germans. We watch everything on the television with compassion and sympathy.” ImportantProblemFatherNationsCompassionWatchesMilitaryTelevisionBrotherVictoryBattleDiedBritishCelebrateReasonableGrandfatherOur FatherDilemmaFather DiedNormandyFathers And GrandfathersGrandfather Died Author:Manfred Rommel
“Thematically, we're both [with Kristin Hannah ] interested in women's experiences and women's stories, and until now, you've mostly dealt with how it feels to be a wife/mother/sister/name your poison in today's world. But this story [The Nightingale ] is told from the perspective of two sisters during the German occupation of France in WWII.” WorldFeelsTwoStoriesTodayMotherNamesWifePerspectiveFrancePoisonOccupationWwiiNightingalesToday's WorldTwo SistersWife Mother Author:Megan Chance
“Honestly, I really didn't want to take on World War II France, but when I came across the story of a nineteen-year-old Belgian woman who created an escape route out of Nazi-Occupied France, I was hooked.” WorldWantYearsWarStoriesHonestlyFranceWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War INaziRoutesHookedNineteenBelgians Author:Megan Chance
“I had read a lot of books on World War II, but I didn't know that downed airmen had hiked over the frozen peaks of the Pyrenees Mountains in shoes that didn't fit, in clothes that weren't warm enough, with German and Spanish patrols searching for them.” KnowsWorldBookWarEnoughFitMountainClothesShoesWarmWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IFrozenAirmen Author:Megan Chance
“The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel.” StoriesInspirationNovelHeroismPerilAirmen Author:Megan Chance
“Andrée De Jongh story led me to other stories of women who joined the Resistance in France. I found literally dozens of memoirs written by women who had become spies and couriers and helped to create the escape network. These women were like action-star heroes.” StoriesActionFoundStarsWrittenHeroMemoirResistanceFranceDozenSpy Author:Megan Chance
“There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting themselves directly in harm's way to save others. Too many of them paid a terrible, unimaginable price for their heroism. And like so many women in wartime, they were largely forgotten after the war's end.There were no parades for them, very few medals, and almost no mention in the history books.” WayChildrenBookWarEndsStoriesHomeVoiceTerriblePaidForgottenHarmHeroismMedalParadesUnimaginableHistory BooksWartime Author:Megan Chance