Potsdam Station Quotes

“That's how all this started,' Russell said, as much to himself as to her. 'Hard to believe now, perhaps. But twenty years is a long time. Once it becomes clear that your passion will also cause innocents to suffer, it begins to wear you down. First there's good and evil, and then the good gets tarnished, and soon it's only a lesser evil. Some quit at that point; they walk away, either physically or mentally. Those that don't, it just gets harder. Your father kept going — that's the one and only thing I really know about him.'

'You make him sound like a hero,' she said, with more than a trace of anger.

'Do I? I don't mean to. People like your father, they lock themselves in. Like a sailor who ties himself to a mast in a storm. It makes sense, but once you're tied up there's not much you can do for anyone else.”
― david downing, Potsdam Station

“Eisenhower loathes Montgomery”
― David Downing, Potsdam Station

“The rest of the world should know who really defeated the Germans.”
― David Downing, Potsdam Station