Make peace, you fools!
Make peace, you fools!
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Message given to a staff officer after calling Hitler’s headquarters. Quoted in “SS Steel Rain: Waffen-SS Panzer” - by Tim Ripley - History - 2002
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- We are in no position to withstand a prolonged static war. Wherever the allies concentrate their forces they will break through. For us there can be no question of military victory or of winning the war. Our only hope is to hold on long enough to allow some development on the political front to save Germany from complete collapse. - View Quote Details on We are in no position to withstand a prolonged static…
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- I strongly object to the fact that this stupid operation in the Ardennes is sometimes called the ‘Rundstedt Offensive’. This is a complete misnomer. I had nothing to do with it. It came to me as an order complete to the last detail. Hitler had even written on the plan in his own handwriting “not to be altered.” - View Quote Details on I strongly object to the fact that this stupid operation…
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- We should have known better after the first war. - View Quote Details on We should have known better after the first war.
- Three factors defeated us in the West where I was in command. First, the unheard-of superiority of your air force, which made all movement in daytime impossible. Second, the lack of motor fuel - oil and gas - so that the Panzers and even the Luftwaffe were unable to move. Third, the systematic destruction of all railway communications so that it was impossible to bring one single railroad train across the Rhine. - View Quote Details on Three factors defeated us in the West where I was…
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