#second world war

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#allowed #because #censored #doing #just

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#end #million #more #our #people

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#commit #crimes #did #during #germany

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army. ↗

— Rob Walton

#army #camps #companies #concentration #dupont

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War. ↗

— Ian Hart

#fascism #second #second world war #tend #terms

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#back #because #completely #connected #dad

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#drew #first #heath #i #lessons

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#had #her #husband #marriage #mother

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#i #killed #know #saw #second

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#blitz #brought #deal #did #great