Quote #21

Dialogue with Italian general Barbasetti at Capuzzo. Barbassetti: 'it was very painful the sacrifice of the X Army Corps abandoned in the desert'; Rommel: 'is this a critic? no disapproval words have come from the Fuhrer'; Barbassetti: 'I watched the endless column of retreating companies, German drivers rejected to pick up on their trucks the Italians'. After these words Rommel silenced.

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  1. Good soldiers, bad officers; but remember that without them we wouldn't have civilization.
  2. If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.
  3. Gentlemen, you have fought like lions and been led by donkeys.
  4. We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great General.
  5. For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.
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  7. I didn't die nor win.
  8. He was the best leader of fast-moving troops but only up to army level. Above that level it was too much for him. Rommel was given too much…

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