"Vatican ? How many divisions ?"

Stalin, about the power of the Catholic church.

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Police cars carry three agents. The first one can read, the second one can write and the third one keeps watch on those dangerous intellectuals.
Unknown subversive activist - 20th century.

"Cities on fire! Breathtakingly beautiful!"

Rudolf Hess describing his first experiences of WW1

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" O du dumme, braune Affe
Wo ist deine neue Waffe?"

Oh you stupid brown monkey
Where is your new weapon?

Propaganda posters set around Reich once nothing was seen of the promised new weapons...

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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin

:S

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Time is only enemy you'll never get rid of.

In 2004, I attended the 85th Annual 3rd Infantry Division reunion here in Savannah. I got to meet many of the actual men who I portray which I must say was REALLY cool and it was a great experience. However, the most memorable quote was spoken by a veteran when I asked him a question pertaining to what he thought of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division's claim of taking credit for capturing the "Eagle's Nest" in May of 1945....

This was his quote exactly.....

"The 101st is full of s***" -I & R Company 1st Sgt. Bill Tonini, 7th U.S. Infantry Reg't., U.S. 3rd Infantry Division

Myself and one other living historian were getting autographs from all of the veterans to have something to remember the occasion by and, we had Sgt. Tonini sign that quote to the back of the 3rd Infantry Division shirts we had with us. It ROCKED!!

Enjoy!

Regards,
MARNE

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"ROCK OF THE MARNE"
Sgt. James Dunigan III
Able Co., U.S. 30th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 3rd Infantry Division(Reenacted)

"He almost always talks. And he can be the Fuhrer as much as he likes, in the end he always repeats the same things and merely bores his listeners."

Magda Göbbels to Count Ciano

From "the Hitler phenomenon" by Henry Picker,Heinrich Hoffman,Jochen von Lang

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Ex-Commando officer and member of Montgomery's personal liaison team ( he won an immediate MC during Market-Garden ) David Carol Mather died recently.

He entered Parliament after the war and obituaries remembered the occasion when Foreign Minister Douglas Hurd arrived at the House of Commons sporting a long, German/Austrian style overcoat. Mather turned to the person next to him :

'The last time I saw a chap wearing a coat like that...' he said, '.... I shot him !'

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"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson

"Yes, Portugal!"

Model´s answer to Hitler´s question of the next potential allied landing site (early 1944).

( ..And they would not sack him...??!)

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" You say calmly that we need groceries for the long war against England and we must fetch them now!"

Model to a young officer who was asking how is he going to explain the attack to Russia to this men on the eve of the operation ( even when there was a non-aggression pact since 1939 )

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" I trust that man to do it, but I wouldn´t want to serve under him!"

Adolf Hitler sending Model to another mission winter 1941-942

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" He was a victim of his Generals!"

Adolf when war was not going well on what they would have to put on his grave stone....

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"Has the British Navy no sense of glory?"

Stalin refusing to believe that 24 ships from one convoy ( PQ 17 ) had been sunk and accused of lying of the disaster.

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" This chef is going to cook spicy dishes only!"

Lenin on Stalin

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" Worth a million soldiers!"

Winston Churchill on the Norwegian ships in 1940: More than 600 general cargo ships and 233 tankers.

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" If you take Dubno tonight, you will get a medal. If not, you will be shot!"

South-Western front commissar Nikolai Vashugin to Eights Mechanized Corps´ commissar Nikolai Popel on June 28th 1941

"Ribbentrop is such an imbecile that he is a freak of nature!"

Count Ciano

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"Not Stuka weather? NOT Stuka weather?!! It is always infantry weather!!"

W Model as he ordered air cover for his troops and he was told the bad weather was not suitable for the Stukas. He did get the air cover after this...

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"Göring´s fighters have arrived so the raid must be over!"

Sarcastic remark later in war by Germans themselves.

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" All that Luftwaffe can come up with is cr**! "

Sepp Dietrich Dec 26th 1944

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"At night one could see from Bastogne back to the West wall, a single torchlight procession of burning vehicles!"

GenMaj Ludwig Heilmann Dec 23rd 1944 ( To win the winter sky by D Parker )

" the one who gets you is the one that you´ll never see "

Old pilot saying

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I don´t want to get any messages saying " I am holding my position! " . We are not holding a goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy´s balls...

Patton in one of his speeches

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