Wednesday, August 02, 2006
A door into a dark room.
By the middle of June, when his military advisers were declaiming that Russia would be beaten in no time and when someone spoke of Russia as a "big bubble," Hitler suddenly became thoughtful and said that Russia was rather like the ship in Wagner's Flying Dutchman. "The beginning of every war is like opening a door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness."John Lukacs, The Last European War: September 1939 - December 1941 137 (Yale University Press 1976).
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