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Norman Davies Quotes

British - Historian | June 8, 1939 -

The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.

Time Will Write Used Something Last

All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

Great Bloom Season Replaced States

Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice.

Practice Racial Started Laboratory

Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.

Start Winners Standing Remembrance

Nowadays, it is no longer possible to maintain that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939 was a fiction invented by bourgeois-imperialist enemies. Everyone has seen the film clips of Herr Ribbentrop landing in Moscow, and of Stalin smiling broadly as Ribbentrop and Molotov signed up side by side.

Smiling Possible Everyone Enemies Up

Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Jews.

Country Only Deportation Jews German

A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.

Bad Dangerous Wood Dead More Even

I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts.

Myself Death Tired People Sick Find

Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most.

Think Write Interest Interested Most

There is history in condoms, there is history in lampshades, there is history in everything.

History Everything

I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit.

Women Faith Children Men Bond Story

I first came across the Anders Army story by accident. When I first went to live in Oxford in the 1960s, I discovered that some of my close neighbours had been on the Anders trail.

Live Story Army Trail First Been

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