Alliances Quote by Niall Ferguson

“On March 13, 1938, Austria was annexed by Germany. It didn’t seem to help that President Roosevelt had sent a letter to Adolf Hitler…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that…

— James Forrestal

You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

— Milos Forman

In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting…

— John Mearsheimer

I think my father [ Erwin Rommel] would have given the same answer. The British and Americans and the French were too strong, too…

— Manfred Rommel

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, honestly believed that he could reason with Adolf Hitler in good faith. Now, most history…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would it then…

— Margaret Thatcher

If the Britain and France had done what they were obliged to do under the treaty and sent troops to enforce the treaty when…

— Graham T. Allison

Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many aspects, and…

— Vyacheslav Molotov

I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in…

— Adolf Hitler

Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an…

— Adolf Hitler