Watching all of this, I feel my heart and mind split in two. One half of my heart aches for all the misery, weeps for all the destruction. But then I tell myself for the hundredth, perhaps the thousandth time, that this is the only way that we can destroy the monster. Who started all this butchery, who kindled these infernos throughout the world, who torched London, Rotterdam, Dunkirk? The monster was all-powerful, all-powerful though cowardly even then. But now his enemies are strong, and they must kill, kill, kill to live. In the struggle between barbarism and civilization killing is a necessary and unavoidable evil. Civilization has to use the weapons of barbarism in order to prevail. That is the great tragedy.
Agnès Humbert, Résistance: Memoirs Of Occupied France
Agnès Humbert, Résistance: Memoirs Of Occupied France
