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Quotes from World War Two

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Introduction:
"1938-1946 saw the World turn upside down with a War that changed the way we lived. Who said what, though?"


1. "Germany is not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace, but also loves its honour and freedom".
    Neville Chamberlain
    Joseph Stalin
    Franklin D Roosevelt
    Adolf Hitler


2. "We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuation".
    Winston Churchill
    Lord Halifax
    Neville Chamberlain
    Clement Attlee


3. "We've already reached our first objective, which we weren't supposed to do until the end of May [1941]. The British are falling over each other to get away. Our casualties small. Booty can't be estimated".
    General Hans Krebs
    General Alfred Jodl
    General Erwin Rommel
    General Ludwig Beck


4. "You will not only be unable to make up your losses but will grow weaker as time goes on ... we will not only make up our losses but will grow stronger as time goes on. It is inevitable that we shall crush you before we are through with you."
    Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
    Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
    Admiral Harold Stark
    Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz


5. "Each position, each yard of Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end".
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6. To whom was Adolf Hitler referring to with this remark?

"What hurts me the most, personally, is that I still promoted him to field marshal. I wanted to give him this final satisfaction ... a man like that besmirches the heroism of so many others at the last moment. He could have freed himself from all sorrow and ascended into eternity and national immortality, but he prefers to go to Moscow."
    Heinz Guderian
    Erich von Manstein
    Friedrich Paulus
    Walther von Reichenau


7. "He [Churchill] told me that if Overlord failed, the United States would have lost a battle, but for the British it would be the end of their military capability".

US Presidential envoy William Averell Harriman on a meeting with Winston Churchill, May 4, 1944 was said to have heard the British PM say this.
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8. "If leaders are called to account and condemned, very well, but you cannot punish the German people at the same time. The German people are free of guilt".
    Wilhelm Keitel
    Alfred Rosenberg
    Hermann Goering
    Joachim von Ribbentrop


9. "The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage. We have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is unsufferable".
    Yoshimichi Hara
    Hideki Tojo
    Kantaro Suzuki
    Emperor Hirohito


10. "The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness."
    Winston Churchill
    Douglas MacArthur
    Harry S Truman
    Franklin D Roosevelt


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