German soldiers Quote by Martin Gilbert

“Across Europe some 11 million men lay dead, including 2 million Germans, 1.4 million Frenchmen, and 900,000 British. Another 21 million had been wounded,…

— Liaquat Ahamed

“Had Marshal Foch accepted Matthias Erzberger’s plea to stop the fighting on November 8 while negotiations were under way, likely, 6,750 lives would have…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Many of the most heroic deeds of the war were performed by small, isolated groups of soldiers, unaware of the situation, without adequate equipment…

— Robert E. Merriam

“The Germans have removed, murdered or burned alive tens of thousands of Jews. Out of the three million Polsih Jews, no more than 10…

— Diane Ackerman

“The Germans had more men killed and wounded at Verdun, 325,000, than all the 230,000 men deployed in the field at Stalingrad twenty-six years later.”

— Joseph E. Persico

“Sir, it seems to me that You have been much better informed about the               situation than I was, because it was that awful…

— Christopher S.M. Lyon

“One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand,…

— STEPHANE AUDEGUY

“In the winter of 1941 the German army succeeded in starving between 1.3 and 1.65 million Soviet prisoners of war to death.”

— Keith Lowe

“Precautionary measure. With those words any deaths could be justified. Better to destroy your own people than there be a chance a German soldier…

— Tom Rob Smith

“So the cold barracks were spared, lonely as they were, and the armories were unscathed, empty as they were, and the larders went unmolested,…

— Mike S. Elton

“Of the twenty-eight thousand German fighter pilots to see combat in WWII, only twelve hundred survived the war.”

— Adam Makos

“So many engineers were seized that factories came to a halt; so many railway men died that some trains did not run; so many…

— Adam Hochschild