The History Boys2006

Irwin:
So, let's summarize. The first World War- what points do we make?

Crowther:
Trench warfare.

Lockwood:
Mountains of dead.

Posner:
On both sides.

Dakin:
Generals stupid.

Posner:
On both sides.

Akhtar:
Armistice. Germany humiliated.

Irwin:
Keep it coming.

Crowther:
Mass unemployment.

Akhtar:
Inflation.

Timms:
Collapse of the Weimar Republic, internal disorder and the rise of Hitler.

Irwin:
So, our overall conclusion is that the origins of the second war lie in the unsatisfactory outcome of the first.

Timms:
Yes. Yes.

Irwin:
First class. Bristol welcomes you with open arms. Manchester longs to have you! You can walk into Leeds! But I'm a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, I've just read 70 papers, they're all saying the same thing, and I'm asleep.

Scripps:
[raises his hand]But it's all true.

Irwin:
What's truth got to do with it? [Scripps laughs quietly] What's truth go to do with anything?