Famous Quotes

[kallitheus]

''Undoubtedly,your heighness will reach Sicily on time for the Vespers''

Spanish diplomat in France,referring to the ''Night of the Sicilian Vespers'' incident,1282,where during the night of the vespers a couple thousand of frenchmen were slaughtered by the revolving sicilian people at Palermo,and replying to King Henry's IV threat:

''I shall have breakfast in Milan,and i will take lunch in Rome'' ,

where he implied what he could do to the Spanish holdings in Italy,during the 15th century.

[Franconicus]

BP said he died in 1945. I never knew about the communists killing him though, thanks..

Here is what I know about it:

After the Allied landed in Sicily there was a putsch against Mussolini. One of the leaders was the Italian king. M was arrested. Italy made peace with the Allies. Note that there were still many Germans in Italy, esp. fighting in the South and many Italian fighting in Russia.

Germans troops occupied the north of Italy and arrested the Italian soldiers in Russia and made them go on fighting. They established an "Italian" state in northern Italy. German special forces managed to free M and he was leader of the new "state". Italy declared war on Germany. In northern Itaky there was the complete chaos. There were communist partisans as well as Italian fashists and German troops. Allied fighters and bombers attacked everything. The front in the South came closer and closer. In this chaos M was killed by partisans in 1945.

Hope what I wrote is correct and helpful.

[Rodion Romanovich]

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IIRC he was slaughtered along with his mistress in late 1943 by the communist "partisans". Germany invaded part of Italy afterwards, the US taking the rest. The two fought over the peninsula and you know who won.
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He was taken prisoner in perhaps 1943, if I remember correctly. The germans carried out a covert raid and released him and transported him to Germany. At the end of the war, at about the time when the allies crossed the Po and broke the last really strong German defensive line in Italy, Mussolini and his mistress were captured and executed by the Italian partisans somewhere in northern Italy.

[Rodion Romanovich]

BTW I can't believe nobody has mentioned the quotes from Churchill. In their simplicity they're quite fun. Here they are (perhaps slightly incorrectly quoted):

Never in the history of warfare have so many had so few to thank for so much.
- About the British fighter pilots during the Blitz

This is not the end, not even the beginning of the end, but perhaps this is the end of the beginning
- At the time of operation overlord, I think

[Drisos]

"You shall not pass!"

gandalf, LOTR, part 1.

[Franconicus]

The great Carthage waged three wars. After the first, it was still mighty. After the second it was still habitable. After the third it could not be found anymore.

Bertolt Brecht (10.02.1898 - 14.08.1956), German writer