Melissa

“Is it to be wondered that our military staffs organized their Intelligence Services so badly? Their members belonged to a social class in which the taste for self-education was suffering from creeping paralysis. They were the kind of men who could read Mein Kampf and still entertain doubts about the true intentions of Nazi policy.”
― Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat

“Hitler kept the truth from his servile masses. Instead of intellectual persuasion he gave them emotional suggestion.”
― Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat

“The voice on the radio may speak our language, but it comes from the other side of the Rhine.”
― Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat

“It was a strange form of wisdom that did not even ask whether, in fact, there could be any worse catastrophe, for our culture or for the system of our economic life, than to let ourselves be conquered by a robber society.”
― Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat