PICTURES FROM HISTORY: Rare Images Of War, History , WW2, Nazi Germany: Humorous quotes (Some are really not funny)

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
---- Robert Frost

"Graduation speeches were invented largely in the belief that college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated."
---- Garry Trudeau

"Anyone seen in a bus over the age of 30 has been a failure in life."
---- Loelia, Duchess of Westminster

"Our childhood is what we spend the rest of our lives overcoming."
---- Amy Bennett

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
---- Oscar Wilde

"Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood."
---- Cal Thomas

"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
---- Fred Allen

"Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest."
---- Neil Kinnock

"When a husband brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason."
---- Molly McGee

"Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil--and you'll never get a job working for a tabloid."
---- Phil Pastoret

"You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something."
---- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"School is like a lollipop. It sucks until it is gone."
---- Ashley Salvati

"A smart person knows all the rules so he can break them wisely."
---- Lubna Azmi

"Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines."
---- Jason Hutchison and John Benfield

"An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault."
---- William Castle

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
---- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

"A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner."
---- Jean de La Bruyère

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
---- Dorothy Parker

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

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 1

Hubert 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.'

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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.'
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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