“2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.” AmericaNightForceMilitaryWestJewIsraelBillionsGermanyEquipmentDay And NightUnprecedentedWest GermanyMilitary Equipment Author:George Scratchley Brown
“Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many aspects, and thus has become, as clearly can be seen, a dangerous rival to principal imperialistic powers in Europe - England and France. That is why they declared war on Germany on a pretext of fulfilling the obligations given to Poland. It is now clearer than ever, how remote the real aims of the cabinets in these countries were from the interests of defending the now disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia.” WarRealCountryCertainGivenInterestUnitedMillionsMilitaryDangerousEuropeAspectEnglandAimObligationFranceGermanyPrincipalFulfillingRivalsCabinetsSupremacyPolandPretextCzechoslovakia Author:Vyacheslav Molotov
“I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad. As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour. Germany does not want war of any kind. Germany wants real and abiding peace.” WorldWantNeedsKindDoeSaidIdeasWarRealGovernmentLostLossMilitaryNo IdeaGermanyHonourRealisingAbidingOutside WorldSteering Author:Rudolf Hess
“As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.” PeopleKnowsPoliticalNationsCitiesMillionsDoubtSubjectsMilitaryDestructionLogicDebateGermanyNo DoubtCampsJustified Author:W. G. Sebald
“Luxembourg was and still is today a crossroads, the place where Germany meets the rest of Europe. The country lost part of its territory to Belgium in the 1800s, and during World Wars I and II the German military overran it. Very few people have visited Luxembourg - when I went there and looked at it, I said, my God, it's built on a rock. And within the rock they had a castle, and within the city there's a network of tunnels so the residents could move around and defend themselves. That was of great interest to me.” PeopleWorldSaidStillsWarCountryTodayMovingLostInterestCitiesRocksMilitaryEuropeBuiltWar Of The WorldsGermanyTerritoryWorld War ICastlesTunnelsCrossroadsResidentsBelgium Author:I. M. Pei
“Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.” WorldBigsCareUsedForceIssuesMilitaryUsed To BeGermanyRatiosSidelinesMilitary ForceWorld IssuesUltima Author:Frank-Walter Steinmeier
“How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsCountryStatesYoungUnitedEducationUnited StatesMilitaryCollegeAmountHigherLowsSpendingEndlessEducatedGermanyOther CountriesScotlandHigher EducationSwedenWorkforceDenmarkTuitionNorwayAustriaFinlandCollege Tuition Author:Bernie Sanders
“President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going to - we're not going to advance NATO into East Germany, if you allow the unification of Germany." Where is that pledge? Where is the logic behind a military alliance, devised in the time of communism, before the Berlin Wall fell, now being in the Ukraine, in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia and Lithuania? I don't understand.” IfsWayPresidentBehindsMilitaryWallEuropeLogicEastCommunismGermanySecretaryEasternPresident BushAlliancesPledgeUkraineBerlinBack WhenNatoPolandBakersEastern EuropeUnificationBerlin WallGorbachevEast GermanyEstoniaWay Back WhenLithuaniaLatvia Author:Rashid Khalidi