"Ships! Ships! All we need is ships! What a headache!"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chief of Army Plans [Early 1942]

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“One seldom recognizes the devil when he has his hand on your shoulder.”

Albert Speer

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"I should like to see the German general who would fight on with the same stubborn resistance in a situation which seemed just as hopeless."

Adolf Hitler on the defenders of Bastogne.

" That book´s a criminal document - the whole formation sticks out like a dog´s balls!"

Pilot Robert Oxspring of 66 squadron on Manual of Air Tactics ( early Fighter Command: Fighter Area Attacks -system )

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Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

- Joseph Stalin - As reported by De Gaulle during a long meeting.

( Ahh Comrade Stalin always so refreshing...not a dull man in any way!)

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“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”

Winston Churchill

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"I am the head of the Luftwaffe, but I have no Luftwaffe."

final words before taking potassium cyanide by Robert Ritter von Greim

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"What good fortune for leaders that the people does not think" A. H.

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" What about the Germans? "

Major-General Sosabowski at the end of the briefing for Arnhem

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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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"The difference between a war criminal and a hero is who is on the winning side"


By Roddoss72 (cica 1996)

Nice quote, and I quite agree. You just might make it into our Historical Quotes database.

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Phear der PanzerPenguin!
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If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

von Stauffenberg

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" Victory has many fathers
Defeat is always an orphan!"

Count Ciano

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The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration. - George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

The fate of two great empires seem to be tied up in some goddam things called LSTs!

Winston Churchill-after being told D-Day was postponed due to a shortage of landing ships

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If it's silver its American, if it's dark it's British, and if it's invisible, it's ours.

German joke about aircraft-1944

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"By going only half that distance I could be in Moscow."

Guderian in August 1941 refusing to turn towards Kiev

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"The Russian colossus...has been underestimated by us...whenever a dozen divisions are destroyed the Russians replace them with another dozen."

General Franz Halder - Army Chief of Staff - August 1941

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

" Yes, it seems our Führer is correct, and we have won the war in the east..."

Franz Halder in early July 1941

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Maybe something to do with the OKH figures....

By 8 July 1941, OKH estimated that the Russians had only 46 combat-worthy divisions left; by 23 July this figure had risen to 93 divisions....( to be continued ).

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Interesting how he changed his mind 1 month later as proven by the quotes provided above and how he only held his job for only 1 more year after, as he was fired in 42' for being " too soft ".... then sent to prison camps.

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler