Stalingrad Quotes

Some refer to it as a cultural Chernobyl. I think of it as a cultural Stalingrad.

— JGBallard

The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.

— Antony Beevor

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

— John F. Kennedy

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

— Friedrich Paulus

“From the Battle of Clontarf to Stalingrad: history brought to life”

— Anonymous

“A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not…

— Antony Beevor

The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very…

— Vasily Chuikov

“The Germans had more men killed and wounded at Verdun, 325,000, than all the 230,000 men deployed in the field at Stalingrad…

— Joseph E. Persico

“We were evacuated to Stalingrad. And when Stalingrad was besieged, we volunteered to go to the front. All together. The whole family:…

— Svetlana Alexievich

A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the…

— Joseph Goebbels

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any…

— John F. Kennedy

“Had he won the battle of Stalingrad, he would have been sitting there, too; for any war against our Soviet Union must…

— William T. Vollmann

He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the…

— Erwin Rommel

Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The…

— Quentin Tarantino

No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying,…

— Noam Chomsky

Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably…

— Tony Judt

By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den…

— Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is…

— Max Hastings

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima…

— Edward Abbey

The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance…

— Adolf Hitler

“A few days later, from a wall along the river, Martha Gellhorn watched the Soviet troops move on. ‘The army came in…

— Geert Mak

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad…

— Alexei Sayle

Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled…

— Noam Chomsky

“The brother shivers. The woman weeps. And the girl goes on reading, for that's why she's there, and it feels good to…

— Markus Zusak

One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they…

— P. J. O'Rourke