35963Y297 The movie The Third Man is set in Vienna

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IMMEDIATELY AFTER
THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
REFLECTING ON THE RECENT CONFLICT THE CHARACTER HARRY LIME SAYS:
‘After all, it’s not that awful... In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare,
terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce?
The cuckoo clock.’ Lime gets almost all his facts wrong - Switzerland was probably the móst bloodthirsty corner of early modern Europe (its main export was mercenary soldiers), and the cuckoo clock was actually invented by Germans -
but the facts are of lesser importance than Lime’s idea, namely that the experience of war pushes humankind to
new achievements. War allows natural selection free rein at last. It exterminates the weak and rewards the fierce
and the ambitiously? War exposes THE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE, & AWAKENS THE WILL TO POWER, FOR GLORY AND
FOR CONQUEST! Friedrich Nietzsche summed it up by saying that war is “THE SCHOOL OF LIFE” &
that WHAT DOES NOT KILL ME MAKES ME STRONGER”! Similar ideas were expressed
by Lieutenant Henry Jones of the British army. Three days before his death
on the Western Front in the First World War, the
21-year-old Jones sent a letter to his
brother describing
his experience of
war in glowing
terms.

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