Quotes about war
war army preservation
Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war. Adolf Hitler
war thinking knights
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
war giving victory
I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.
war mean people
The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom
war enemy want
How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.
war land two
Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a land for which we have fought two great wars.
war world want
I have no further interest in the Czecho-Slovakian State, that is guaranteed. We want no Czechs
war fire world
God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.
war air-power rockets
If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.
war fall hands
Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland.
war wipe world
Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.
war enemy world
I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.
war demand munich
I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)
war world intention
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!
war names people
I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than any possible benefits. It would be a wonderful thing for all of humanity if both peoples would renounce force against each other forever. The German people are ready to make such a pledge.
war europe world
It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good.
war world war-of-the-worlds
Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.
war victory gentleman
Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.
war shining victory
A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!
war world versailles
Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.
war fall sacrifice
If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.
war soldier world
Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may depend on its outcome.
war world germany
Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany
war thinking world
Whenever I think of this attack, my stomach turns over.
war loss men
Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.
war home people
Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.
war rise-to-power mein-kampf
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
war men years
I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do
war wish germany
Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss
war soldier battle
Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.
war simple europe
National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe. The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never have wished for war.
war europe race
Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers, inside and outside Europe, succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!
war dark doors
The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.