Winston Churchill Quotes

At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre.

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

You read 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor because you're interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever.

In Hitler’s frantic mental haze Already Hull and Cardiff blaze And Paul’s grey dome rocks to the blast Of air torpedoes screaming past

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.

It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

I must give a most emphatic warning, in the interest of our common cause, of the grave danger with which further delay in opening a second front in France is fraught

Mr. Churchill, I don’t give a damn about your cottages. I have come over here to see how I help you beat this fellow Hitler.

The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.

We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War.

After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.

From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.