Quote of the day II

The best thing I leave to my successor is the SS

- Adolf Hitler

 

"In fifty or sixty years there will be statues of Hermann Goring all over Germany. Little statues maybe, but one in every German home."
Hermann Goring

 

'I won't leave the Volga! I won't go back from the Volga!'

Adolf Hitler to suggestions of withdrawal from Stalingrad

 

“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear a hundred battles. If you know yourself and not the enemy, for every victory you will suffer a defeat. If you know neither yourself nor the enemy, you are a fool and will meet defeat in every battle.”

Sun Tzu

 

...the rear of the tanks looked like meat grinders.

-Major General Alexander Vandegrift

 

It is a pity that this faithful youth is sacrificed in a hopeless situation."

Gerd von Rundstedt on 12th Waffen-SS division "Hitlerjugend" after it was almost destroyed in the Normandy battles.

 

I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.

- Hermann Goring

 

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Carl von Clausewitz

 

"Hell, let’s have the guts to let the sons of bitches go to Paris. Then we’ll really cut ‘em off and chew ‘em up.”

Patton to Eisenhower during the initial phase of battle of the bulge

 

Paris??? Did he really say Paris?? Sorry, don't want to knock a hero, but why would he think Paris?? What gain could be had from going to Paris...except for the obvious...?

Guess it was just a matter of speech...righ!?

(sorry Kai, don't mean to turn this thing OT... )

 

I don´t think the Germans had the offensive power to go that far....I guess Patton just thought they should let the main force enter deep and then they´d cut the neck of the attack and Germans would lose all their men and vehicles for good...like they actually did...

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"...We have only one task - to stand firm and carry out the racial struggle without mercy."

- Reichführer-SS Heinrich Himmler

 

That's right - I think Patton went on to say : 'This time he's put his head in the meatgrinder - and I'm holding the handle !'

 

At least once Hitler did not have total knowledge on production facts and figures:

Anecdote about Galland and Speer being dressed down by Hitler, who orders all fighter aircraft production cancelled and the material used for FLAK cannon production. As soon as Speer and Galland are alone, Speer turns to Galland and says {roughly), "Dont worry, you cannot make cannon out of aluminum. When the Führer calms down I will explain this to him and tell him to increase FLAK production out of Locomotive production."

 

There is none!

Replied Gamelin to Churchill´s question on 16 May 1940 “Where is the strategic reserve?”....

 

"Each one hopes that if it feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last"


Winston Churchill in his radio broadcast, Jan. 20, 1940 describing the fate of appeasers.

 

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

 

pigs are for eating..........Me !

~E

 

"I´d rather have a fresh regiment!"

Karl Ullrich in Demyansk pocket after receiving news of being rewarded the Knight´s Cross.

 

"A little caution outflanks a large cavalry."

Otto von Bismarck

 

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

General Patton