"It is probably no overstatement to say that the Russian Campaign has been won in the space of two weeks"
Chief of Staff OKH Franz Halder
3 July 1941
" If we strike hard enough, Russia will collapse like a pack of cards
"
Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring
Early 1941
"Her Reichsmarschall, this is your great, historic hour; you must prevent this attack on Russia, you are the only one who is in position to bring the Fuehrer round to accept your view!
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Field Marshall Erhard Milch to Hermann Goering. Early 1941
" Time will tell whether a German hegemony or a Communist federation is to arise out of the ruins of Europe"
