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"If you side with the Nazis, Thomas, then we're at war."
"Isn't it best to know what you're getting into... before you agree to get involved in it?"
"How I envy the young. For them everything is so clear. Things seem to be either one way or another. It is only with a little age that you begin to see life as a series of compromises. But even in compromising one must draw a line."
"What's the matter with all of you? Can't you see what's happening? Are you afraid to look? We are murdering Austrians. Next it'll be the Czechs, and the Poles, not to mention the Gypsies, and the Jews- it's unmentionable! You think that just because you're not doing it yourself, you're not a part of it? Well, I'm sick and tired of doing my part!"
"In a world on the brink of war. You either march to one tune or dance to another."
"They fought for the freedom that bound them together."
"Robert Sean Leonard - Peter Müller"
"Christian Bale - Thomas Berger"
"Frank Whaley - Arvid"
"Barbara Hershey - Frau Müller"
"Tushka Bergen - Evey"
"David Tom - Willi Müller"
"Julia Stemberger - Frau Linge"
"Kenneth Branagh - SS-Sturmbandführer Knopp"
"Noah Wyle - Emil Lutz"
"Jessica Hynes - Helga"
"Martin Clunes - Bandführer"
"Jayce Bartok - Otto"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.