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September 17th, 2008, 02:45 PM
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"I am certain that you will fight with everything you've got. Don't overestimate your opponent, but strike him dead."
Admiral Donitz´message to his 41 boats in his battle line with ONS 5 convoy May 1943
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September 19th, 2008, 03:27 PM
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"It is the Russian Army that has done the main work of ripping the guts out of the German Army."
Winston Churchill
Speech in the Parliament (1944-08-02)
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September 20th, 2008, 07:41 PM
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"If you want to skate through life, either agree with everything or disagree with everything. Both options require no thinking."
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September 22nd, 2008, 12:43 PM
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"There's not a dimes difference between a Republican and a Democrat."
George Wallace
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September 22nd, 2008, 01:10 PM
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Re: Quote of the day III
If I advance; follow me! if I retreat; kill me! if I die; avenge me!
Benito Mussolini
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September 23rd, 2008, 04:34 PM
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If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.
Wilhelm Keitel
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September 26th, 2008, 03:32 PM
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“I assert that a great number of the foreign workers in our country did their work quite voluntarily once they had come to Germany.”
Albert Speer
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September 27th, 2008, 06:02 PM
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" We reckon it´s rough here! You can reach through the hedge and put the safety-catch on their Spandaus!"
US Soldier describing the war in Normandy summer 1944
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September 29th, 2008, 01:16 PM
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"If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there."
Marshall Zhukov
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September 30th, 2008, 10:00 AM
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"It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them. "
Adolf Hitler
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October 1st, 2008, 01:43 PM
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" When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. "
Winston Churchill
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October 2nd, 2008, 01:59 PM
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During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
Joseph Göbbels
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October 4th, 2008, 02:28 PM
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"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders . . . All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism."
Hermann Göring
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October 5th, 2008, 12:50 PM
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“If I were to take offence when abused by Winston and given to understand that he had no confidence in me, I should have to resign at least once every day!”
Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke
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October 5th, 2008, 02:16 PM
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"In the real world of limited resources, we know that we can only detect, investigate, and prosecute a small percentage of those officials who are corrupt."
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"I remain convinced there is no more important an area in the fight against corruption, than the challenge for us within the law enforcement and justice sectors, than to keep our own houses clean."
both by U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft ..April 18, 2008
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October 10th, 2008, 01:09 PM
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Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?
Adolf Hitler
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October 11th, 2008, 06:12 PM
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Gold is not neccesary. I have no interest in gold. We will build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration camp. That's the bastion of money.
Adolf Hitler
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October 12th, 2008, 12:31 PM
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The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.
Joseph Göbbels
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October 13th, 2008, 02:38 PM
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" A rare honour has this day fallen to the Division. It has captured a town ahead of the BBC!"
August 16th 1944, 3rd British Division´s Intelligence summary
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October 14th, 2008, 03:52 PM
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" Again and again I meet soldiers in the Department Eure who, as cyclists, do not keep their legs stiff when saluting. This is against orders, when the bicycle is freewheeling, and the journey is not uphill.I request that all units be informed."
Gollnitz, Oberst, District Commander, August 1944
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