Quotation

Inferno

the World at War, 1939-45
A Berlin teenager named Dieter Borkovsky was riding the city’s S-Bahn on 14 April, amid a throng of passengers loudly venting their anger and despair. Suddenly a soldier, adorned with medals which seemed absurdly incongruous on his small, dirty figure, shouted, “Silence! I’ve got something to tell you. Even if you don’t want to listen to me, stop whining. We have to win this war. We must not lose our courage. If others win the war, and they do to us only a fraction of what we have done in the occupied territories, there won’t be a single German left in a few weeks.” Borkovsky wrote: “It became so quiet in that carriage one could have heard a pin drop.”