Quote of the day III

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.



George Orwell

 

"I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany."

Alfred Rosenberg in the Nuremberg trials ( What a liar! )

 

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

Adlai Stevenson

 

"I would like to sit down and write one final blast about the whole damn Nazi mess and mention names and details and let the German people see once and for all what rotten corruption, hypocrisy, and madness the whole system was based on!-I would spare no one, including myself."

Albert Speer during the Nuremberg trials

 

"I was given this assignment which I could not refuse--and besides, I did everything possible to treat [the foreign slave laborers] well."

Fritz Sauckel during the Nuremberg trials

 

"I have no illusion about this trial. Naturally, I will be hanged or shot. I flatter myself to think that I will be shot; at least I will request it."

Erich Raeder, during the Nuremberg trials

 

"...we few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother..."- Henry V; Act IV, Scene 3:

 

A bit off for a WW2 quote...

“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth” - F. D. Roosevelt did not like J. Goebbels

 

" Wars begin where you will but they do not end where you please."

Machiavelli

 

"When I saw the newspaper headline 'GAS CHAMBER EXPERT CAPTURED' and an American lieutenant explained it to me, I was pale in amazement. How can they say such things about me?"

Kaltenbrunner during the Nuremberg trials

 

From two ships of Posey's "Eight Balls" during Ploesti ...

John Diehl in lead ship "V for Victory"
When jumping to 250 feet to avoid smokestacks and still remain in formation to again join up at the same altitude of the rest ...
"We were at very low level ... People ask me what I mean by low level. I point out that the antennas on the bottom of my airplane I brought back sunflowers and something that looked suspiciously like grass."

George Hulpin in ship "D for Dog"
"We're too low to miss, we're five feet above the target."

 

"Japan's future is bleak if it is forced to kill one of its best pilots. I am not going on this mission for the Emperor or for the Empire... I am going because I was ordered to!"

Lieutenant Yukio Seki on going on a suicide mission

Yukio Seki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

" I have never been an antisemitist!"

Adolf Eichmann - during trial early 1960´s in Israel

 

"The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it."

Dr Josef Mengele

 

"It is now crystal-clear," the U.S. Admiral said, "that we will win the war, but it is not yet clear just when it will end. I am realistic enough to believe it will be over long before the gloomy prediction of 1949."

Admiral Nimitz autumn 1943

 

"Dirty dog! Damned traitor!"

Göring to Bach-Zelewski at Nuremberg trials

 

A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb

 

"We could not have won the battle (El Alamein) in twelve days without that magnificent 9th Australian Division."

Bernard Montgomery

 

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

 

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

Albert Einstein