Skip to content

The Russian colossus...has been underestimated by us...whenever a dozen divisions are destroyed the Russians replace them with another dozen.

— Franz Halder

Another quote →

More quotes by Franz Halder

Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.

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.

It was a distance about twice as long as this room; then there was a wall, and just beyond it the crematory. When the wind blew in at the south I got smoke in my cell. It was a fat smoke, big flakes of smoke - human smoke.

The Führer confirms my impressions of yesterday. He would like an understanding with Great Britain. He knows that war with the British will be hard and bloody, and knows also that people everywhere today are averse to bloodshed.

All Franz Halder quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Franz Halder (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.