Quotes about war....
"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man."
--Napoleon Hill
"We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide."
--Havelock Ellis
'Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
--Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
--George McGovern
"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
--Joseph Stalin
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
--Voltaire, War
In war, truth is the first casualty.
-- Aeschylus
"The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery."
--Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
--Adolf Hitler
"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."
--George Orwell
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
--Bertrand Russell
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
--Francis Meehan
Snippets From History
German Soldiers in Russia: Part 1Hubert Menzel was a major in the General Operations Department of the OKH (the Oberkommando des Heers, the German Army headquarters), and for him the idea of invading the Soviet Union in 1941 had the smack of cold, clear logic to it: 'We knew that in two years' time, that is by the end of 1942, beginning of 1943, the English would be ready, the Americans would be ready, the Russians would be ready too, and then we would have to deal with all three of them at the same time.... We had to try to remove the greatest threat from the East.... At the time it seemed possible.'==========
Battle for Berlin, 1945
'We started to fire at the masses,' says one former German machine gunner. 'They weren't human beings for us. It was a wall of attacking beasts who were trying to kill us. You yourself were no longer human.'
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Berlin after it fell to the Russians, 1945"Vladlen Anchishkin, a Soviet battery commander on the 1st Ukrainian Front, sums up the horror of the whole event, when he tells how he took personal revenge on German soldiers: 'I can admit it now, I was in such a state, I was in such a frenzy. I said, 'Bring them here for an interrogation' and I had a knife, and I cut him. I cut a lot of them. I thought, 'You wanted to kill me, now it's your turn.'Read More
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Dramatic Pictures: Battle For Stalingrad
"...Effective command no longer possible... further defense senseless. Collapse inevitable. Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops."
General Paulus' radio message to Hitler on January 24, 1943
"...Capitulation is impossible. The 6th Army will do its historic duty at Stalingrad until the last man, the last bullet..."
Hitler's response to General Friedrich Paulus' request to withdraw from the city
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American soldiers cut loose the body of a hanged german deserter. Picture was taken near Schweinfurt/Bavaria in Germany, April 1945.
After the capitulation: Thousands of German helmets ready for meltdown.
A Jewish boy has a look of fear as a SS soldier with a slight smirk prepares to cut the Jewish boys hair.
American soldiers cut down a hanged German deserter.
Nagasaki after it was hit by the 'Little baby'
Malmedy Massacre, committed by German SS troops against surrendering US troops during the Battle of the Bulge. The US soldiers were led into a filed and then shot down. While German survivors claim that the soldiers tried to flee and were shot in an overreaction, surviving US soldiers state that the victims were executed, something supported by the fact that roughly a quarter of them had a single bullet wound to the head, inflicted at close range
After a fierce battle in Russia.
The grim battle for Berlin
An American ship after it was hit by a Kamikaze
A heavy US bomber B-24 "Liberator" takes a direct hit of German flak and breaks apart.
The vanquished have that defeated look: German prisoner captured near Otterloo, Netherlands
