Charles Kaiser Quotes & Sayings

Eight hundred small boats had loaded 338,000 men into larger ships during the legendary evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, including 500 French officers and 18,000 French sailors, to prevent them from being captured or killed by the Germans. — Charles Kaiser

The Sorrow and the Pity, — Charles Kaiser

Right from the start most German generals knew that Hitler was psychotic. But as long as he was winning the war, almost all of them were happy to overlook that detail — Charles Kaiser

Recalled Sir Edward Spears, the wartime liaison between Churchill and de Gaulle. We had 15,000 French sailors at Liverpool. I went to speak to them. I tried to persuade them to continue the fighting. Impossible ... — Charles Kaiser

That the Rhineland should be occupied by an international force until the dispute with Hitler can be resolved, the — Charles Kaiser

If you carry a weapon, it is always to kill. Do not think it is to defend yourself. If you draw your weapon, never get closer than three meters to the person you want to kill, — Charles Kaiser

All but 50 of these officers and 200 of these sailors will return home to occupied France, rather than stay in Britain to fight the Germans. Their idea was to get out of the war — Charles Kaiser

If the French army was defeated, it was impossible to imagine that the English would survive. — Charles Kaiser

Canon gives orders that no more prayers are to be offered up for the British government. — Charles Kaiser

Man was not made to be guilty, sin is not interesting, the only ethics are those which lead man toward the greater things he carries in himself. — Charles Kaiser

Only one deputy, one admiral, and one leading academic remain with the Free French in London, and de Gaulle notices that all of his earliest supporters are either Jews or Socialists. A man of mythic pride, de Gaulle is infuriated by his total dependence on the British. — Charles Kaiser

So many important New York musicians were gay, one wit dubbed the American Composers League the Homintern. — Charles Kaiser