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Martha Gellhorn

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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.


— Martha Gellhorn


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Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.


— Martha Gellhorn


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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.


— Martha Gellhorn


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It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.


— Martha Gellhorn


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The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.


— Martha Gellhorn


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Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.


— Martha Gellhorn


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There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.


— Martha Gellhorn


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Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.


— Martha Gellhorn


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I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.


— Martha Gellhorn


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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.


— Martha Gellhorn


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Did you know about Martha Gellhorn?

She first went to Gastonia North Carolina where Martha Gellhorn used her observation and communication skills to report on how the people of that town were affected by the Great Depression. Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8 1908 – February 15 1998) was an American novelist travel writer and journalist considered by the London Daily Telegraph among others to be one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. The pair celebrated Christmas of 1937 together in Barcelona.

At the age of 89 ill and almost completely blind Martha Gellhorn committed suicide. Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8 1908 – February 15 1998) was an American novelist travel writer and journalist considered by the London Daily Telegraph among others to be one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway from 1940 to 1945.

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