Quotes About Luftwaffe

#1. You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

Prince Charles

#2. The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

Franz Halder

#3. Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses.

Franz Halder

#4. Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#5. I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

Huey Lewis

#6. My Luftwaffe is invincible ... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?

Hermann Goring

#7. In the 1960s the planning department of the London County Council, whose unofficial motto was Finishing What the Luftwaffe Started, decided that what London really needed was a series of orbital motorways driven through its heart.

Ben Aaronovitch

#8. The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.

Adolf Galland

#9. According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

Adolf Galland

#10. We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.

Noam Chomsky

#11. In March 1935, Germany admitted the existence of the Luftwaffe,

Nigel Cawthorne

#12. Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.

A.A. Gill

#13. It was a dismal mismatch: Hitler had been single-mindedly building up his forces in the 1930s, while British defence spending was at historical lows. The Luftwaffe entered the Battle of Britain with

Tim Harford

#14. A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

Annie Leibovitz

#15. Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk ... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'

Noam Chomsky

#16. To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

Vanilla Ice

#17. Why not remove his desk, bring in a treadmill, hang a carrot from the ceiling and stop all pretense already.

Colson Whitehead

#18. My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be.

Kelly Sue DeConnick