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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

~Daniel Day-Lewis

Topics: Accent German Germans Just Speak

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The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

~David Kay

Topics: Believed Certainly Disturbing Germans Intelligence Judgment Most Out Service Turns Were Wrong

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The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job.

~David Petraeus

Topics: After Any Battalion Battle Did Done Element First German Germans Group Impressive Job Long Operation Operations Portion Province Think Very War Wonderful Work World World War World War Ii I Think

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If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Casualties Countries Denmark Find Germans Had Heavy Higher Kingdom Look Loss Losses Mind Much Per Points Rates Suffered Than United United Kingdom Us Various Well You

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It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

~Diane Kruger

Topics: About Am Bury Christmas Dead Eve Excited Famous Football French German Germans Make Never Night One Night Opera Opera Singer Peace Place Play Play Football Quite Really Scottish Singer Story Takes Trying Which I Am

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The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

~Donna Leon

Topics: Brits Germans Kiss Letters Me Polite Reserved Spanish Swiss Very Write

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I remember taking photographs as the local Gauleiter, Albert Forster, harangued huge crowds of Germans in the evenings with a big swastika flag in the background.

~Douglas Slocombe

Topics: Albert Background Big Crowds Evenings Flag Germans Huge Local Photographs Remember Taking I Remember

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The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

~Ernie Pyle

Topics: Destroying End Enough Germans Got Hard He His How Matter Over Physical Process Rest Soldier Truly Us Wants War Work

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At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Because Been Blind Brother Brothers Dead French Germans Had Knew Last Men Moment Only Realised Realization See Them Then Were Wished

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Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Country Defended Done Duty Each France Germans Germany Had His Own

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