Quote of the day III

" What a glorius day...for killing Germans!"

Patton on 23rd Dec 1944 as the weather turned good and the sky was clear again...

 

Make it three great ones for the weekend....

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


When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill


When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill

 

"I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by a ringing of a bell are not to my liking; the bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring."
Benito Mussolini - (To his son in law) - 10th June 1941

 

"...It's a Panther, no it's a Tiger..." "I don't care about the family just FIRE!!!"
--Russian tank commander to gunner.

( Found in the net...)

 

Each thick finger, a fattened worm, gesticulates,
And his words strike you like they were many-pound weights.
His full cockroach moustache hints a laughter benigning,
And the shafts of his boots: always spotlessly shining.

Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938), Russian poet. “We Exist in a Country Grown Unreal and Strange,” trans by Vladimir Markov and Merrill Sparks.

This satire of Stalin led to Mandelstam’s arrest and exile to a concentration camp. ( surprise surprise...)

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/quotations/quote/47789

 

" The solution is to attack everywhere with determination and at all cost!"

Zhukov

 

" When Field Marshall Model came, Army Group Center was in fact only a hole!"

Adolf Hitler on 28th June 1944 on Ostfront situation

From " Hitler´s commander" by Newton

 

Every educated person is a future enemy.

Martin Bormann

 

" Every time I get a new star, I get attacked. " Eisenhower

" And every time you get attacked, I bail you out!" Patton

Decemeber 1944 after the beginning of Wacht am Rhein

 

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

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

 

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

Albert Speer

 

"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 )

 

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!)

 

“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

 

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

final words before taking potassium cyanide by Robert Ritter von Greim

 

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

 

" What about the Germans? "

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

 

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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


By Roddoss72 (cica 1996)