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I had orders to report to Brigadier General Lindsey, and he said to me, "Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole damned…

— Alvin C. York

“Somewhere nearby, artillery thundered. Vast fields — flat as a table, without a single tree — turned any moving figure into an easy target…

— Anonymous

“The Germans rolled back, and a wounded lieutenant, the artillerist Kostia Khudov, was left in no-man’s-land. The orderlies who tried to bring him back…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

— Wilhelm Keitel

There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

— Jack Kirby

“Like some translucen latterday Cassandra, the prophetess of doom, (Heila the Comptesse von Westarp, the former secretary of the Thule Gesellschaff) rose up from…

— Trevor Ravenscroft

“And so begins the strangest campaign in military history : a competent general and a seasoned army of eighty thousand men chased like deer,…

— William Bolitho

“A t the end of World War II, the Nuremberg war tribunal sentenced the Waffen SS, possibly the finest fighting force the world has…

— Hillblad (ed.), Thorolf

“It is often said that the invention of terrible weapons of destruction will put an end to war. That is an error. As the…

— Leo Tolstoy

If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious…

— Adolf Hitler