Farmland was a priority for the Reich because, if there was one lesson they’d learned from the previous conflict, it was that no one can endure a war without food. The German farmhands were sent off to war, but if manpower were needed to
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“I, too, have been forced to stand close to it, and have felt the almost muscular agony of impotence before it, unable to interfere or assuage or do anything effective. Though I do—oh yes I do—believe the soul is improvable. Oh sweet and defiant hope! 5”
― Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
― Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
“The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
“Infinite sadness is not to trust an old friend.”
― Straight
― Straight
“...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.”
― Girl at War
― Girl at War
“I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories.”
― Kindred Spirits
― Kindred Spirits
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