#germans

We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM. Let's stop thinking that there's only one country who's going to pay for the others. That's false. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#europeans #false #french #germans #going

Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fiction #germans #holocaust #nazis #signs-and-symbols

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends. ↗

— James Laughlin

#concentration #fiends #germans #good #group

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#articulated #build #consent #defy #europe

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#always #ball #chase #end #football

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ago #any #battalion #battle #conducted

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#forty #germans #important #machines #minority

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#germans #nonsense #say #unable

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#created #germans #had #jab #life

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#big #case #children #ears #faces