1939 Quotes

“As the world waited for Hitler’s reply, his admirers acknowledged his birthday in appropriate fashion. Goering saluted him as ‘the greatest German of all time’ and continued: ‘Let the politicians and statesmen of the world forge their plans and intrigues; let journalists spout forth poison against us; for us, undisturbed by their shrieks, only the world of Adolf Hitler is valid.… Lord God, protect the Führer and bless his work.”
― Robert Kee, 1939: The World We Left Behind

“The peace proposal boils down to the simple proposition that a burglar should be confirmed in his loot and given complete indemnity, in return for which he offers a conditional promise to cease housebreaking.”
― Robert Kee, 1939: The World We Left Behind

“newspapers do provide invaluable historical evidence not only of forgotten events but also of the way things looked before later events made them look different. And that is as much a part of history as the way things actually were.”
― Robert Kee, 1939: The World We Left Behind