Reinhard Selten quote: "I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to Germany, and only German was spoken there. After the Second World War, Breslau became Polish, and the original German population was almost completely replaced by a Polish one. I have never visited Wroclaw after the war."

After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now h...
HORST KOEHLER

In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the acc...
SABINE BARING-GOULD

Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, ...
ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents wa...
WAGNER MOURA

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. Aft...
JAN KARON

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
LLOYD ALEXANDER

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II...
AL PACINO

We are convinced a Christian Democratic-led government in Germany and a centre-right coalition in Po...
FRIEDBERT PFLUEGER

I grew up in Hamburg, and that was like growing up in little Germany. We talked German at home. Our ...
BOB GRULING

I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defe...
GUNTER GRASS

After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench w...
CHARLES DUHIGG

A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guern...
SLAVOJ ŽIžEK

After the reunification, there was a certain sense of foreignness because daily life in the former E...
ANGELA MERKEL

I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fri...
ADRIENNE BAILON

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire...
ERIC KANDEL

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.
BERNHARD LANGER

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.
JON ENGLISH

I have seen and drawn dying, poisoned worlds. I published a book of drawings called 'Death of Wo...
GUNTER GRASS

The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it....
LORD PALMERSTON

After World War II the Allies refused to recognize Karl Dönitz as the president or führer, Reichsp...
CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER, "SUPPRESED I RISE"

My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very...
DAVID PETRAEUS

The organization of the camps in the east revealed a contempt for life, the life of Slavs and Asians...
TIMOTHY SNYDER

I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of ...
JOHN CORNFORTH

The beginning of the 19th century in Germany and Vienna was a new era with German composers writing ...
CECILIA BARTOLI

In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It...
MEREDITH MONK

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into conce...
ROB WALTON

Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Secon...
KURT VONNEGUT

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
KITTY CARLISLE

The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were com...
FREDDIE WONG

America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
SAM KEAN

Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socia...
TARIQ ALI

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much mor...
MONICA CROWLEY

I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kick...
MOLLY IVINS

When it came to demography, the German debate oriented itself very much on the past. And our Nazi pa...
REINER KLINGHOLZ

My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 2...
DONALD TUSK

The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.
HUGO CHAVEZ

The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequent...
FARNAZ FASSIHI

Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma c...
GORDON BROWN

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after ...
CLINT EASTWOOD

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any...
HEINRICH BOLL

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we reno...
KENZABURO OE

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, an...
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO

I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and...
PETER LANDESMAN

After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expressi...
NAOTO KAN

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World W...
WALTER KOHN

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World ...
FRITZ SAUCKEL

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the Germ...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS

My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschw...
JULIE SALAMON

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice mu...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER

By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the e...
TOM WOLFE

The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting...
GENERAL MATITYAHU PELED

The style of dance that I do is called Ottawa Valley Step Dancing. The area was settled by people wh...
APRIL VERCH

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT

I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE

I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER

I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo...
HAROLD PINTER

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in t...
HENRY A. WALLACE

I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.
TED SHACKELFORD

For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
CARICE VAN HOUTEN

Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This ...
HARALD ZUR HAUSEN

But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, t...
CESAR ROMERO

I was painting a lot after the war, influenced by automatic gestures and Pollock. But I knew there w...
ETTORE SOTTSASS

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago...
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and...
SAM DONALDSON

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's ...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a b...
GEORGE MARTIN

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't ...
ABBEY LINCOLN

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then...
DAVID BOWIE

I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge....
MANUEL MOROUN

I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on t...
CINDY SHEEHAN

Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structur...
WILLIAM GOLDING

In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be complet...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 190...
ELLIOTT CARTER

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchil...
ALEXANDER HAIG

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make ...
TREVOR NUNN

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic condition...
DAVID BRUCE

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic condition...
DAVID K. E. BRUCE

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and...
EDWARD GREY

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes ...
MARIANNE MOORE

The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station...
JONI MITCHELL

Known as "Ike,” Eisenhower was born prior to the Spanish American War on October 14, 1890. Graduat...
CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER

My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German ...
DANIEL BRUHL

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experie...
RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI

There is some evidence that it was formulated in writing before the war started, for after the war. ...
AHMED CHALABI

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I was born in India - but never really lived there.
AASIF MANDVI

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvem...
ALBERT SPEER

My hobby was the military. I had been reading military history, especially as it relates to the Civi...
MARC RAMSEY

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captu...
FRITZ SAUCKEL

The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs t...
WERNER HEISENBERG

When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England a...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish comm...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

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