“Strength lies not in defense but in attack.” Adolf Hitler (1889 to 1945) Adolf Hitler is one of the most well-known – and reviled – figures in history. As the leader of Nazi Germany, he orchestrated both World War II and the Holocaust, events that led to the deaths of at least 40,000,000 people. In… Read More
“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.” Adolf Hitler (1889 to 1945) Adolf Hitler is one of the most well-known – and reviled – figures… Read More
“We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is unsufferable.” Emperor Hirohito (1901 to 1989) Hirohito, original name Michinomiya Hirohito and posthumous name Shōwa, was emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. He was the longest-reigning monarch in Japan’s history. There is still considerable debate on the exact nature and… Read More
“Once we have war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.” Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 to 1961) An American novelist and short-story writer who served in World War I (in 1918 as an ambulance driver in the Italian… Read More
I have always been interested to know how the size of the British armed forces has fluctuated over the years, and the statistics in a FOI request from the Ministry of Defence (MOD) makes interesting reading. FOI – Size of the UK Armed Forces Since 1700. From 1700 to 1900, as you might expect, the… Read More
“The battle we are now approaching demands a colossal measure of production capacity. No limit on rearmament can be visualized. The only alternatives are victory or destruction… We live in a time when the final battle is in sight. We are ready on the threshold of mobilization and we are already at war. All that… Read More
“Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?” Josef Goebbels (1897 to 1945) Served as the Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler.
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