“The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. .May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything [a. o. using his bed sheets as canvas for the new paintings].” WorldHumansMayWarEndsAsksPiecesBloodBedNormalEatingShotsHungerWar Of The WorldsBoredomFollyBombsReportsSpiteClimbsChairsWorld War IiEntertainingWorld War IAgain And AgainCanvasNaziSheetsPersecutionCavesSpectatorsDistinguishedPardonGrotesqueBed Sheets Author:Max Beckmann
“Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives. ... Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory ... No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world.” WorldTryingHumansWarDoneNationsCausesFateTroubleBloodBalanceVictoryHigherProveConscienceGuiltDareBrokeWar Of The WorldsMotiveBleeding Author:Ellen Key
“The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.” WorldWayWarReasonTreeBloodMovementRootsWar Of The WorldsOur TimeRisingRemarkableWorld War IiWorld War ITwistedPulseSapUpheavalStampede Author:Anne O'Hare McCormick
“Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!” WorldWarEndsLastsBloodPositionWar Of The WorldsSoilTerritorySovietInchesWorld War 2 Author:Joseph Stalin
“These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money; and though that is in some ways true, it is also true that, without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.” WorldWayBelieveWarBloodThese DaysWar Of The WorldsSecond World War Book:The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History Source: The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History