#world war i

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#back #berlin #childhood #days #i

Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#around #because #came #front #had

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#better #brother #ii #keeper #know

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#after #america #australians #before #big

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#accepted #after #attempts #barbarians #canadian

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#austrian #born #class #disastrous #end

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#brother #committed #father #fighting #had

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#ii #interrupted #like #many #others

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war. ↗

— Douglass North

#become #beliefs #communist #else #everybody

I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe. ↗

— Frank Scott

#developing #europe #i #ideas #post