What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>