Armed forces Quote by Max Hastings

“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

“Now these [battles] too are over, and already we see once more in the dim light of the future the tumult of the fresh…

— Ernst Jünger

“They say the German soldiers fight blindly, with only such knowledge of their objectives as is absolutely necessary to send them forward. We believe…

— Albertus Wright Catlin

“We have more generals today than we did at the end of World War II, and more troops in Germany than during our occupation…

— Andrew Heaton

“Kaiser Wilhelm II strengthened the military and launched Germany on an irresponsible combative journey. His arrogance proved to be his undoing.”

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“When the Germans surrendered with their arms raised high, holding a white flag, they weren't at all how i imagined them: hard, cruel, tall…

— Mariko Nagai

“Good for Germany, that’s what everyone said about Hitler and his band of murderous monsters. True, he’d returned Germany’s pride, but at what price?…

— Roberta Kagan

“If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick—dead!”

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“The rivalry of the European states in constantly increasing their forces has reduced them to the necessity of having recourse to universal military service,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

“For we Germans are snoring, buried in sleep and wine, and we are destitute of leaders who could measure up in wisdom, strategy, and…

— Martin Luther

“It may be easy with the retrospect of history to see how bad the Nazis were. But to grow up in the midst of…

— Rudi Wobbe