The Trial of Lucullus (1940), Brecht Collected Plays, vol. 4, p. 386.
“History is always written by the victor and histories of the vanquished belong to a shrinking circle of those who were there.”
Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 19, citing Peiper to Karl Wortmann, November 28, 1974 in note 27.
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