Roger Moorhouse > Quotes

“As historians, we have to remind ourselves that yesterday was once tomorrow.”
― Roger Moorhouse

“Indeed, it occasionally seems as if the book has attempted to inoculate itself against the prospect of actually being read.”
― Roger Moorhouse

“I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth.”
― Roger Moorhouse, Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

“While the Germans were unleashing a race war in the west of Poland, the Soviets imported class war to the east in the Red Army’s baggage train.”
― Roger Moorhouse, Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II