177 Quotes About World-war-2

Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.

Если бы немцы заполнили наши штабы шпионами, а войска диверсантами, если бы было массовое предательство и враги разработали бы детальный план развала нашей армии, они не достигли бы того эффекта, который был результатом идиотизма, тупости, безответственности начальства и беспомощной покорности солдат.

In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.

Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed because the printer ran out of capital I's.

Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was the transforming event that reshaped all who lived through it, and continues to affect those born after it. Only the American Revolution that created the new nation and the Civil War that preserved the Union rank with it in importance.

Overriding all of them, however, was the memory of 1918, the belief that the Jews, wherever and whoever they might be, threatened to undermine the German war effort, by engaging in subversion, partisan activities, Communist resistance movements and much else besides.

If a bomb has your name on it, you are dead whatever you do; and if not, it will miss you.

If you can't change it don't worry about it.

It was difficult to understand him. On the one hand he pandered even to the most unimportant things while on the other he was excessive and unfeeling. He might show the most fatherly concern for a female secretary who had stabbed her toe but be utterly ice-cold when issuing orders which set thousands to their deaths.