Erhard Milch Quotes
Erhard Milch delivers blunt, shrewd reflections on strategy, alliances and law, showing how planning beats luck.
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That Germany beat these countries was due to better planning and not better preparedness.
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Let them try me. I shall have plenty to say about the Allies. I have some very good friends among the Americans and English, and the French industrialists, too. I have done nothing of which I am ashamed.
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The enemy knows that he must wipe out our fighters. Once he has done that, he will be able to play football with the German people.
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He is a shrewd, Napoleonic, short man, who is very affable, but as poisonous as hell with his affability.
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It was true enough, he did not appear ashamed - merely worried about his own immunity from trial as a war criminal.
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There is no reason to believe that Milch was not absolutely sincere in his idealistic belief in Imperial Germany. Its destruction, however, caused a fundamental change in him: idealism in Erhard Milch was extinguished forever. From this period on, Milch became more and more the slave of his own ruthless ambition.
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Like the bees which keep collecting honey, you take a piece of me everyday. I am so enchanted by your sweet smile and your loving affection that I will never be able to let go.