"If the tanks succeed, then victory follows."

“It's simply our duty to save these people, and we still have time to remove them! But it's useless to sacrifice men in this senseless way. It's high time! We must evacuate those soldiers at once!”

“Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.”

“When the situation is obscure, attack.”

“We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.”

“To imitate the ostrich in political matters has never been a satisfactory method of avoiding danger; yet this is what Hitler, as well as his more important political, economic and even military advisers, chose to do over and over again. The consequences of this deliberate blindness in the face of hard facts were devastating; and it was we who now had to bear them.”

“Personality Profile - General Heinz Guderian" in the Journal of the Singapore Armed Forces”