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November 21st, 2005, 04:41 PM
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"The Estonians will be transferred by train to Siberia but the Finns will walk there!"
Molotov after Winter War during summer 1940
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November 22nd, 2005, 01:50 PM
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'Why do we call the world's attention to the fact that we have no past? It isn't enough that Romans were erecting great buildings when our forefathers were living in mud huts. Now Himmler is starting to dig up the villages of mud huts, enthusing over every potsherd and stone axe he finds.'
Hitler at Himmlerīs obsession on searching the origins of the Aryan race
http://www.channel4.com/history/micr...nazimyths.html
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November 23rd, 2005, 02:30 AM
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If you're not "Liberal" when you're 20, you have no heart. If you're not "Conservative" when you're 40, you have no head.
Winston Churchill
(I got it from Jepordy)
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Morbius, Morbius! Something is approaching from the Southwest. It is now quite close.
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November 23rd, 2005, 01:29 PM
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Because of the PC denials of the reality of war, a quote you wont find in any book, said by PFC Pootsie Stiemly to my Uncle while they were both taking cover under a 6X6 at Anzio, while "Annie" and company were sending there "Hellos".
"If blood stinks, I'm bleeding to death."
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Morbius, Morbius! Something is approaching from the Southwest. It is now quite close.
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November 28th, 2005, 02:00 PM
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All he could do was stand on a tank, baton in hand and shout "Iīm the king of Africa!"
Sepp Dietrich on Rommel
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November 30th, 2005, 04:46 AM
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"Carry on, chaps. I've had it"
Sqn Ldr Joe Berry to the rest of his flight, after being shot down.
http://www.hawkertempest.se/sound.htm
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The Heroes Are The Ones Which Didn't Make It Home...
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November 30th, 2005, 11:12 AM
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"For a commander of a panzer or motorised division to leave his headquarters without a radio set was considered tantamount to travelling without his head "
As Sepp Dietrich went to 21st panzer Hq in June 1944 in Normandy to hear their commander was away and failed to take a radio with him...
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December 7th, 2005, 08:51 AM
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"Sure as hell we have plenty of escort. The Thunderbolts and Lightnings take us to the German border then the 190s and Messerschmitts are with us the rest of the way!"
The Bomber crews before Mustang arrived...
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December 8th, 2005, 03:33 PM
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" If I want to get shot then thatīs the way to do it!"
Sepp Dietrich when asked why he didnīt personally try to affect Hitlerīs plans during the Normandy campaign
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December 8th, 2005, 04:03 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Kai-Petri:
" If I want to get shot then thatīs the way to do it!"
Sepp Dietrich when asked why he didnīt personally try to affect Hitlerīs plans during the Normandy campaign
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ha. That's a good one. Mind if I borrow that? 
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December 9th, 2005, 11:43 AM
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"Now we are all sons of bitches."
-Kenneth Bainbridge, Director of the Trinity Project, to J. Robert Oppenheimer, seconds after the successful test of the first atomic bomb, July 16th, 1945
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December 12th, 2005, 03:41 PM
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hereīs another by Sepp, PzJgr...
"What do you think I am? Running a zoo? "
Sepp answered to von der Heydte during the Ardennes operation preparations when the latter asked if he could get pigeons in case his radio failed to operate on landing. ( considering the war situation and supplies available not surprised of Seppīs reaction really )
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December 12th, 2005, 04:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Kai-Petri:
hereīs another by Sepp, PzJgr...
"What do you think I am? Running a zoo? "
Sepp answered to von der Heydte during the Ardennes operation preparations when the latter asked if he could get pigeons in case his radio failed to operate on landing. ( considering the war situation and supplies available not surprised of Seppīs reaction really )
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Sepp Dietrich may not have been a military genius but he had a colorful way of telling you his mind. Thanks.
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December 12th, 2005, 07:19 PM
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"Hold on a little longer boys, we're sucking them into 40mm range!" Chief Gunner's mate Jerkins, USS White Plains CVE 66 during the Battle of Samar, 25 Oct 44 as his ship was being shelled by several Japanese heavy cruisers and battleships.
The White Plains managed to get about a half dozen hits with her single 5"/38 gun on the cruiser Chokai disabling at least one turret and engine room forcing the cruiser to break off the action.
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December 21st, 2005, 08:44 AM
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"At first sight Hitler struck me as the commonest little dog I had ever seen"
PM Chamberlain Sept 1938 of his first trip to Berchtesgaden
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRchamberlain.htm
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December 25th, 2005, 03:03 PM
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A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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December 27th, 2005, 05:38 PM
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"Riesensauerei!"
(=Total mess!) Von Klugeīs description of the situation in the west on July 31 1944 to OB West
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"Never has so much been surrendered by so many to so few!"
Anthony Eden during operation Compass 1941
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January 6th, 2006, 01:14 AM
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January 6th, 2006, 01:17 AM
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Sorry, but I love this quote from Casablanca.....
(In the office at Rick's Cafe Americain)...
Bergman: "Haven't seen you since the day Paris fell"
Bogart: "I remember! The Germans wore Grey, you wore Blue".
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January 8th, 2006, 10:00 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by T. A. Gardner:
The White Plains managed to get about a half dozen hits with her single 5"/38 gun on the cruiser Chokai disabling at least one turret and engine room forcing the cruiser to break off the action.
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Flat top ship-of-the-line ? 
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January 11th, 2006, 01:33 PM
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The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.
Emperor Hirohito
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