quotes

Anschluss- Alan Bullock

"Anschluss was not only a long standing aim of Hitlers but also a calculated move that demonstrated the failure of the versailles settlement."

Rearmament- Richard Overy

“it was the first gamble hitler took and it paid off. The allies failure to act decisevly in 1936 encouraged him to beleive they never would act”

Nazism- Rudolf Hess

“The party is hitler, But Hitler is Germany just as Germany is Hitler.”

Failure of national security- B.P. Kennedy

“Germany and italys power was consistently overrated on the basis of slim evidence whereas all british defence weakenesses were seized upon as reason for inaction.”

Munich agreement- martin Gilbert

“munich was the most shameful moment in British foreign policy. It handed czechoslovakia to Hitler without a shot being fired.”

Blitzkreig- william shirir

“spread terror in the ranks of the enemy armies”

Luftwaffe- Herman Goering

“My luftwaffe is invincable…and so now we turn to engand. How long will this one last. One, two weeks.”

lebensraum- william shirir

“the aims of german policy…was to mzke secure and to preserve the racial community and enlarge it.”

Racial Purity- die wehremach

Die Wehremach in which the composer contends that the treaty of versailles “caused an enormous, constantly bleeding wound amongst the ethnic germans”

revisionism Diktak

“dictated peace”

Maginot mentality- Miriam webster

“the maginot line was a “strategy that inspires a false sense of security”

Dunkirk- Winston Churchill

“We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations”

Outdated techniques- winston Churchill

“The navy can lose us the war but only the airforce can win it”

Battle of Britain- winston Churchill

“Never in the feild of conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

Battle of Britain- Richard Overy

“The battle of britain was the first major defeat of the german armed forces.”

The blitz- Ian kershaw

“The blitz failed in its strategic aim to break the morale of the british people”

Limitations of air warfare- the second world war (1989)

“Airpower was important but it could never be the sole instrument of victory.”

Stalingrad- David Glaniz

“The germans never fully recovered form it.”

Stalingrad- martin mcauley

“Germanys greatest defeat was a turning point. From now on it was no a matter of how the war would end but when.”

weakened germanys economy- richard overy

“By the end of the year losses were running at such a rate that bimber command was facing difficulty in replacing aircraft.”

weakened germanys economy- churchill

“the progressive destruction and dislocation of the german military, industrial and economic system, and the undermining of the german morale to a point where capacity for armed resistence is fatally weakened.”

d-day- murray and miller

“Essential to the defeat of nazi germany. It was not elegant, it was noy humane but it was effective.”

D-day- neillands

“The gradual degredation of germanys industrial complec and the destruction of the means for normal life to continue.”

molotov ribbentrop- molotov

“this no agression pact between the ussr and germany is a turning point in the histoy of europe and not of europe alone.”

aggressive expansion- william shirir

“This was an abrupt and fateful turning point for chamberlain…the prime minister at last saw hitler had deceived him”

Agresive expansion- hitle

“Even if war should break out in the west, the destruction of poland shall be the primary objective.”