Friedrich Paulus quotes

“Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.”
-- Friedrich Paulus

Source : "The World Changers" by Bruce Bliven, (p. 171), 1965.

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“The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man and the last round for Führer and Fatherland unto the end.”
-- Friedrich Paulus

Source : "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William Lawrence Shirer, (p. 931), 1990.

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“Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance will make an unforgettable contribution toward the establishment of a defensive front and the salvation of the Western world.”
-- Friedrich Paulus

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“All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.”

“Tell you what, if there were gays in the army 'Saving Private Ryan' would have been a hell of a lot shorter film. There is no way it would take gay men three hours to find Matt Damon.”

“When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.”

“It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.”

“Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'étendre la méfiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent à l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr.).”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)”

“We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.”

“Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Actually I can't imagine Nato troops on the ground and I think it's also important to send that very clear message to the UN and other organisations right now so that appropriate plans can be in place in due time and the Gaddafi regime can collapse soon.”