--- title: "3 Holger Eckhertz Quotes" description: "Holger Eckhertz has 3 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-holger-eckhertz-82737.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Holger Eckhertz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-holger-eckhertz-82737.jpg) # Holger Eckhertz **3** quotes in **5** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by Holger Eckhertz > [“It is important, I feel, that these things are set down somewhere. I would not wish these things to be forgotten. These…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/holger-eckhertz/it-is-important-i-feel-that-these-things-are-set-down-somewhere-i/) Holger Eckhertz [Forgotten things](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/forgotten-things/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/315/holger-eckhertz-82737_ten-years_it-is-important-i-feel-that-these-things_664778.jpg) > [“I had a great sensation that we were on our own in front of this colossal force. It was a strange sensation:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/holger-eckhertz/i-had-a-great-sensation-that-we-were-on-our-own-in-front-of-this/) Holger Eckhertz [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/489/holger-eckhertz-82737_quote_i-had-a-great-sensation-that-we-were-on_1803525.jpg) > [“I understood much later that this was the day of ‘the largest seaborne invasion in history’ or ‘the biggest military operation ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/holger-eckhertz/i-understood-much-later-that-this-was-the-day-of-the-largest-seaborne/) Holger Eckhertz [History](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/924/holger-eckhertz-82737_history_i-understood-much-later-that-this-was-th_2335684.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/holger-eckhertz/#itemlist", "name": "Holger Eckhertz Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It is important, I feel, that these things are set down somewhere. I would not wish these things to be forgotten. These things were ten years ago, and I am not yet thirty years of age today, I am still a young fellow. And yet I feel in some ways like an old veteran, describing all these events, because they are not spoken of among either the Germans or the English. 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