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RE: Quotes
Posted by: Rainer Kolbicz ()
Date: March 31, 2001 07:59PM

<HTML>Hi Marcus

Other quotes by Heinz Guderian (one of the most brilliant strateges of WWII):

\"Klotzen, nicht Kleckern !\". (Boot\'em, don´t spatter\'em)
This was his favourite one (Hitler used it also, after he heard it from Guderian)

\"Es gibt keine verzweifelten Lagen, es gibt nur verzweifelte Menschen\". (There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people).

\"Man schlägt jemanden mit der Faust und nicht mit gespreizten Fingern\". (You hit somebody with your fist and not with yout fingers spread)
To explain the Blitzkrieg - concentrate the tanks for one mighty push in one direction and not distribute them.

\"Der Kampf gegen die eigenen Oberen macht manchmal mehr Arbeit als gegen die Franzosen\". (It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the french)
When he got orders to stop and wait for the following infantry and tried to persuade his superiors that this would mean to throw away victory.

Regards
Rainer</HTML>

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RE: Quotes CM 03/31/2001 11:52PM
thanks (n/t) Marcus Wendel 04/01/2001 11:05AM
RE: thanks (n/t) Clint Mitchell 04/01/2001 10:03PM
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RE: Quotes Rod 03/30/2001 04:36AM
RE: Quotes Ralph Langley 03/30/2001 11:35PM
RE: Quotes Binnacle 03/31/2001 07:42AM
RE: Quotes MPC 03/31/2001 05:02PM
RE: Quotes Rainer Kolbicz 03/31/2001 07:59PM
RE: Quotes Marcus Wendel 04/01/2001 11:03AM
RE: Quotes Rainer Bruns 04/01/2001 03:08PM
RE: Quotes Rainer Kolbicz 04/01/2001 07:10PM
thanks (n/t) Marcus Wendel 04/07/2001 03:14PM
RE: Quotes MPC 04/01/2001 09:01PM


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