Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.
When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.
The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.
The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.
War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.
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