Quote of the day II

"No man is any good who has no enemies"

"Why piddle about making porridge with artillery,and then send men to drown themselves in it for a hundred yards of No Man's Land? Tanks mean advances of miles at a time, not yards!'

"I cannot do what is ideal, so I must do what I can"

General Percy Hobart

 

"Everyone must be imbued with the desire to kill Germans, even the padres - one for weekdays and two on Sundays."

Montgomery sent a message to all the men in the Eighth Army at the beginning of of the El Alamein attack...

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_el_alamein.htm

 

"First come, first served"

Stalin to Koniev and Zhukov before the final attack on Moscow on who gets to attack Berlin itself.

 

"One death is a tragity, a thousand deaths is a statistic." -Stalin

 

God has given up the protection of the people . . .Satan has taken command.

-- Joseph Goebbels- Radio Werewolf broadcast

 

not WW2 but i find this interesting.. General Sedgewick Union commander in the american civil war.. he is observing a battle from what he feels is a safe distance.. after being asked by his aides to move back says
"we're perfectly safe, they couldnt hit an elephant at this dist..."

 

"The Führer wishes not to be disturbed by such small details"

Early 1945 Bormann´s answer to Göbbels as the latter tried to send an album of pics to Hitler which included pictures of German cities destroyed by bombing.

From Fraenkel-Manvell: Dr Göbbels- his life and death

 

"The Führer wishes not to be disturbed by such small details!"

Early 1945 Bormann´s answer to Göbbels as the latter tried to send an album of pics to Hitler which included pictures of German cities destroyed by bombing.

From Fraenkel-Manvell: Dr Göbbels- his life and death

 

"The Führer wishes not to be disturbed by such small details!"

Early 1945 Bormann´s answer to Göbbels as the latter tried to send an album of pics to Hitler which included pictures of German cities destroyed by bombing.

 

As the nazi party was at times forbidden in the early phase Göbbels invented and used this slogan:

Trotz Verbot
Nicht tot!

Although forbidden
Not dead!

 

As the nazi party was at times forbidden in the early phase Göbbels invented and used this slogan:

Trotz Verbot
Nicht tot

Although forbidden
Not dead

 

"He does not want to be disturbed by such small affairs "

Bormann to Göbbels in early 1945 as the latter wanted to send Hitler a picture album of destroyed German cities

 

"German workers, work! German soldiers, fight! German women, be as fanatical as ever! No nation can do more."

Hitler on his last broadcast January 1945

 

I liked the code talk:
"Thunder"
"Flash"

From We Were Soldiers:
"I will be the first to step and the last to step off. We are all coming home together, whether dead or alive"

 

"Ribbentrop has all the qualities of a dog, except for loyalty."

Göbbels on von Ribbentrop.

 

"There are times when you have to do something like this..."

Hermann Göring as he blew the Karinhalle before the allied arrived

 

Great Bush quotes:

"..for a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times."



http://misnomer.dru.ca/2002/03/bush_in_japan.html

 

Artillery is the god of war.
Stalin

"If, -after the battle is over, your infantry don't like you, you are a poor artilleryman."
Captain Henry Reilly The Field Artillery Journal, September-October 1940

And more artillery quotes:

http://www.military-quotes.com/artillery%20quotes.htm

 

"It is not enough to be efficient - You must look efficient!"

(Field Marshal Viscount Slim)

"I wish he was promoted to colonel - at another regiment!"

(Unknown Russian soldier)

"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake, we must not interrupt him too soon!"

(Admiral Lord Nelson)

 

" Being a soldier, I must follow the Führer's orders!"

Friedrich Paulus: motto