Two earnest gentlemen on a tram.
‘What is it actually about, this world war? What are they trying to achieve?’
‘My dear fellow, they made that very plain before they started. It’s all a matter of who is to control Danzig.’
And then she comments:
Yes, really – that was what all this madness sprang from. But Petsamo is a long way from Danzig! And Germany will have to bear the blame in perpetuity for letting the Russian barbarians loose on Europe.
Excerpt From War Diaries, 1939-1945 Astrid Lindgren