Quote of the day II

"Your operations always hang by a thread."

Kluge´s worries over Guderian´s advance in Russia 1941

 

" The Russians did not have 1,600 tanks, they ONLY had 1,400 tanks!"

Hitler commenting in March 1945 General Raus´s report on battles on the Eastern Front

Sure makes a difference, right?

 

Not WWII but I thought it was good.

"The absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence" - Donald Rumsfeld

 

“In Africa we learned to crawl, then walk, then run."

General Omar Bradley

 

"There just isn't room in the desert for two - like Montgomery and me."

General Herbert Lumsden after being sacked by Monty 1942

 

'I have always understood aeroplanes a lot better than women.'

Anthony Fokker

 

i have never seen that movie but i hate it, i could sit here and act immature and get into polotics here but this is neither the time NOR place to do it sooo lets stick to the war gentelmen

 

I hope you are not stating that by quoting Bush, on the 20th of August and in response to another Bush Quote, that I am being immature. I am not trying to 'get into politics', and did not mean to offend!

I will try and stick to WW11 in future.

 

"Communism and Germany is like a cow and a saddle!"

Josif Stalin

 

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."

Not a ww2 quote but in the memory of football couch Brian Clough who died a little while ago. R.I.P. Brian. And I´m sure Patton would have loved your quote.

More:

http://www.laughfc.co.uk/stories/story.php?id=767

 

" Why don´t they just put the blame on me alone? I can see many men here being accused of Germany´s crimes but I have never heard their names until here..."

Hermann Göring, Nuremberg trials

 

"Joe, we need muscles like yours to beat Germany"

June 22 - FDR after Joe Louis defeated Max Schmeling in Yankee Stadium before 70,000

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/Prelude10.html

 

"Blow up Paris? What the hell is he talking? Has he found a power station in Notre Dame?"

General Hans Speidel after hearing General Blümentritt talk of blowing up Paris....

 

"In principle I support Zionism, but there are difficulties with solving the Jewish question. Our experiment in Birobidzan failed, because the Jews prefer to live in cities".

Stalin to Roosevelt in Jalta 1945 as Roosevelt asked what Stalin thought of Zionism

(Birobidzan is somewhere in Siberia where Stalin started sending Jews after 1928)

http://www.marxist.com/MiddleEast/stalin_and_zionism.html

http://www.rense.com/general56/siberia.htm

 

" We (The USSR) have always believed that there cannot be long lasting peace in Europe without a strong Germany in the middle!"

Foreign minister Molotov oct 1939

 

WW1 quote

"We shall," he promised, "squeeze the orange until the pips squeak."

Lloyd George on making Germany pay for the war.

 

"I think the Union army had something to do with it."

- General George Pickett, answering a post-war question regarding why the Confederate charge at Gettysburg failed.

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"I´ve just received 5,000 Luftwaffe pilots each with a little iron cross on their neck. tell me what shall I do with them?"

Felixt Steiner in Apr 1945 to von Manteuffel after getting the replacements for the tanks

Cornelius Ryan "The last battle"

 

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

I trust no one. Not even myself.

Josif Stalin

 

People who go to Italy to look at ruins won´t have to go as far as Naples and Pompeii in future!

Churchill after hearing Italy had joined the war in 1940 ( and after having decided that they woud bomb Italian cities shortly )