Nine of My Favourite Anton Gill Quotes
Anton Gill, a writer whom I am guessing you love? Here are our 9 best Anton Gill quotes for you to enjoy. At Australia Unwrapped we believe every book has at least one quotable line, and our mission is to find them all. Here you will find Anton Gill’s top 9 popular and famous quotes. Like every good writer Anton Gill made a number of memorable quotes, here are some of our favourites:
Popular Quotes
“Jewish tragedy, I think I must now say why I have not. It is quite correct that the bulk of attention given to the concentration camps should have centred upon the attempt by the Third Reich to eradicate the Jews, because there is no doubt that no other victims of the camps were so inexorably slated for death. The war Hitler waged against them was the one in which he was all but victor, and the one which he personally continued to press with unabated vigour, without regard for the practical considerations of defending his country, to the bitter end. In September 1939 the Jewish population of the Europe that Germany was to occupy and control for the next five years was 8,301,000. It was long established: the community in Greece was 2,200 years old; in Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Italy and Rumania the communities were not much younger. There had been Joys in Germany for 1,600 years, in Poland for 800. Jew-hatred was nothing new, and there had”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors
“When the British started shooting, he simply bellowed the order ‘Cease fire’ in his impeccable English, which they did, until Stauffenberg’s men were safely out of the way. Then Stauffenberg ordered the British to start shooting again, which they did, this time at each other, because they had had the Germans caught in a crossfire.”
― Anton Gill, An Honourable Defeat: A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945
“after I had calmed down my first thoughts were of my family who hadn’t made it, and I decided then, at that moment, that whatever else I did I would try to help other people for the rest of my days as a repayment for the gift of life which had been given back to me.”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors
“The pain is still within me, but it has been a source of regeneration for me. And this is a crucial point in my work: the problem is not that one has pain, but what you do with it.”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors
“The brutal aggression of these would-be soldiers and heroes, wrenched from hopelessness and unemployment and easily turned into unthinking zealots, chilled”
― Anton Gill, Into Darkness
“I have never felt that the work is a burden; it is a duty — more than a duty, something I have to do.”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors
“I can say to myself, “You’ve been through that and you are alive and you have done all right.”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors
“A world ruled by a handful of madmen who weren’t even that bright. How had it come to this?”
― Anton Gill, Into Darkness
“bromide derivative, or even a poison.[73] ‘Soup’ was the KZ staple, and was”
― Anton Gill, The Journey Back From Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors
9 Famous Quotes by Author Anton Gill
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