First world war Quote by Fritz Sauckel

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused…

— Fritz Sauckel

Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would…

— Max Schmeling

My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man.

— Reinhold Messner

After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German…

— Adolf Hitler

I feel privileged to have grown up in Germany so it was a heavy blow for me to be portrayed as somebody who isn't…

— Ilkay Gundogan

Offering hope to the German people, I said that freedom from militarism would give them the opportunity, if they would but seize it, "to…

— James F. Byrnes

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

— Wilhelm Keitel

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

— Bernhard Langer

I've never been a soldier. In Denmark, at 18, as a male, you go in a draw, and if they pick you, you go…

— Tobias Lindholm

I served in the Israeli Navy, and it's not an easy thing.

— Adam Neumann

I'd lived through World War II and hadn't been able to wait to join the army as soon as I turned 18.

— Orson Bean

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

— Daniel Barenboim