Quote of the day III

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Winston Churchill, 1942

 

Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

“If the day should ever come when we [the Nazis] must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction..”

Josef Goebbels.

 

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Winston Churchill

 

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

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

 

"This plan hasn't got a damned leg to stand on".

Field Marshall Model on operation "Autumn mist" during autumn 1944

 

"And if need be, some shots in the air and the Finnish Army will run away in panic!"

Stalin before Winter War answering one Red Army general´s question if the Finnish Army tried to resist the attack in Nov 1939

 

"Have some victories...and you will have us with you!"

Count Ciano to French Ambassador on 2nd June 1940.

( According to Julian Jackson: The fall of France 2003 )

 

"Where would they retreat to? Is it warmer 50 or 100 km to the west? "

Adolf Hitler during winter 1941 on retreating in the Russian front

 

" The Russian, at bottom, is a kind of rabbit. He doesn´t have the ability to transform himself into a "bee" or an "ant",as we Germans can. There is no point in trying to make the Russian more intelligent than he is."

Walther Hewel in the late 1930´s

 

What does that quote mean?

 

A-58,

that simply means in my opinion that his view is that (what Hewell says ) the Russian is just a stupid animal and cannot educate himself or do anything else than live in his country cottage and try to survive with whatever he can get from the country. No need to put them into schools, they are to be the slaves of the aryan people.

 

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed)
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

 

Ahh, so the "bee" and the "ant" thing is supposed to represent organization and work ethics of the Germans eh?

Thanks, I was at a loss for that one....

 

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

 

“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.”

Sir Winston Churchill

 

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. (Will Rogers)

 

"The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times."

Joseph Göbbels

 

"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes"

Adolf Hitler

 

"And what would we do with those fighters.."

Hermann Göring after hearing of planes´ production plans of over 1,000 fighters per month in early 1942.