Quotes from Heinz Guderian

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.

The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle worthiness of our infantry is at an end

The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.

Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.

Action speaks louder than words.

I shall always remember with pleasure and gratitude the lovely and instructive time that I was fortunate enough to spend in Sweden.

Klotzen, nicht Kleckern' (the

We live in a world that is ringing with the clangour of weapons. Mankind is arming on all sides, and it will go ill with a state that is unable or unwilling to rely on its own strength.

Ostrich politics were here combined with ostrich strategy. To

Few qualms of conscience are to be found in the memoirs of those who exercised command in the wars for highly questionable causes that Britain and the U.S.A. waged in the nineteenth century.

Particularly significant for the future development of Guderian's military thought were the linguistic abilities he began to acquire at school. He developed excellent French and good English.

The moral and intellectual condition of a nation may certainly prove of decisive importance on its own account, but all due attention must also be paid to material considerations. When a nation has to reckon with a struggle against superior forces on several fronts, it must neglect nothing that may conduce to the betterment of its situation.

If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.