"‘This is D-Day,’ the BBC announced at 12 o'clock. ‘This is the day.’ The invasion has begun!… Is..."

“‘This is D-Day,’ the BBC announced at 12 o'clock. ‘This is the day.’ The invasion has begun!… Is this really the beginning of the long-awaited liberation? The liberation we’ve all talked so much about, which still seems too good, too much of a fairy tale ever to come true?… the best part of the invasion is that I have the feeling that friends are on the way. Those terrible Germans have oppressed and threatened us for so long that the thought of friends and salvation means everything to us!”

- Anne Frank, 6 June 1944 (via demons)
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