Heinz Guderian

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.

— Heinz Guderian

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.

— Heinz Guderian

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

— Heinz Guderian

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.

— Heinz Guderian

It has been deduced from Hitler's great power over the masses that the Germans are an unusually suggestible race. But in all countries and at all times men have succumbed to the suggestive powers of unusual personalities, even if the wielders of those powers were not always good men in the Christian sense.

— Heinz Guderian

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!

— Heinz Guderian

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

— Heinz Guderian

When the situation is obscure, attack.

— Heinz Guderian

If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

— Heinz Guderian

New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.

— Heinz Guderian