Britain Quote by Joachim von Ribbentrop

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of…

— Franz Halder

“Germany’s siege mentality and gnawing sense of encirclement (the need to ‘storm out of the fortress’ to prevent a Russian attack); Austria-Hungary’s hatred of…

— Paul Ham

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a…

— Douglas Hurd

“Thwarted by the British and French on the world stage, Berlin decided in 1913 to concentrate Germany’s military objectives in Europe. That year Germany…

— Paul Ham

How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc…

— Osbert Sitwell

The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled…

— Barbara Tuchman

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken…

— Bernhard von Bulow

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German…

— Pierre Laval

It would have been very much better for the world if Britain had remained neutral and the Germans had won a quick victory. We…

— Bertrand Russell

You won't find anyone in the UK who doesn't admire what Germany has become. The bilateral relationship between London and Berlin will become more…

— Anthony Glees

If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error…

— Adolf Hitler

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But…

— Winston Churchill