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  1. Do I need to go through my copy of Rise and Fall of the Third Reich to get the exact quote or will you take my word for it that Hitler (could have been Himmler–maybe I should look it up) boasted that the Third Reich would last for a thousand years?

    Godwin’s Law; don’t care.

  2. @CCO: a moment I’ve always felt was well written was in one of the British WWII documentaries shown on the History Channel, when the narrator says:

    “In 1945, Hitler was dead, along with what he had termed the ‘Thousand Year Reich.’ He was off by 996 years.”

    And another of my favorite quotes, along these lines (besides “Guitar groups are dead”) is:

    Battle of Tarawa
    20-23 Nov 1943

    Japanese Rear Admiral Shibasaki Keiji, before the battle, assured his superiors: “A million men cannot take Tarawa in a hundred years.”

    Three days later, the Tarawa operation was over.

    4,690 Japanese and Koreans defenders were killed; only 17 Japanese and 129 Koreans survived the battle. The Americans suffered 1,000 killed with an additional 2,200 wounded.

    http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=72

  3. From the American Heritage Picture History of Word War II: “‘Give me ten years and you not be able to recognize Germany,’ Hitler had said in 1933. It was certainly not recognizable in 1945, twelve years later. … The nation was in chaos; cities smashed, bridges wrecked, railroads cut to bits.”

  4. … and, to the applause of the Washington Press Corps, Obama continued in his best Christina Aguilera voice:

    “Hey yeah yeah, whoa yeah, whoa oh yeah

    Well everybody got an opinion now, don’t they?
    But it ain’t no thing to me
    it really don’t make any difference now to me
    if you don’t like what you see
    I pay no mind to the negative kind
    cause it’s just no way to be
    I don’t stop to please someone else’s needs
    Gonna live my life for me

    I’m gonna keep on, gonna do my own thing
    We all got a song that we’re meant to sing
    and no matter what people say, or might think
    I ain’t going no place, no I’m here to stay
    Gonna keep on doing my thing
    Cause whether they love or they’re hatin’ on me
    I’ll still be the same president I used to be
    And I ain’t going no place, no I’m here to stay

    I’m here to stay
    Whoa oh oh yeah (I’m here to stay)
    Whoa oh oh yeah (I’m here to stay)

    I’ve never been the type to be shy
    I know that some would say I’m too headstrong
    But I’d rather be a playa’ who voices his mind
    Whether you think I’m right or wrong

    And I know some people wanna criticize
    Makes them feel better about themselves
    So say what you will
    Time will reveal
    In the end that I will be here still

    I’m gonna keep on I’m a do’ my own thing
    We all got a song that we’re meant to sing
    And no matter what people say, or might think
    I ain’t going no place, no I’m here to stay
    Gonna keep on doing my thing
    Cause whether they love or they’re hatin’ on me
    I’ll still be the same president I used to be
    Cause I ain’t going no place, no I’m here to stay

    Gotta get up
    Keep my head up
    Gonna keep on turnin it up, never let up
    If I keep steppin it up, I’m a prove that
    I ain’t never gonna be stopped, like it or not
    Gotta get up
    Keep my head up
    Gonna keep on turnin it up, never let up
    If I keep steppin it up, I’m a prove that I ain’t never gonna be stopped, like it or not

    Woah woah woah

    No matter the pressures that face me
    I believe, I believe that we’ll see
    I’ll never let anyone break me
    All your doubt can do now is strengthen me

    And life, it ain’t always that easy
    Gotta fight to see past the boundaries
    Crossin’ the lines I will define
    Every time
    That forever is mine

    I’m gonna keep on, I’m a do my own thing
    We all got a song that we’re meant to sing
    And no matter what people say, or might think
    I ain’t going no place, no I’m here to stay
    Gonna keep on doing my thing
    Cause whether they love or they’re hatin’ on me
    I’ll still be the same prezzy I used to be
    Cause I ain’t going no place, no I’m here to stay
    I’m gonna get bold, I’m a do my own thing
    We all got a song that we’re meant to sing
    And no matter what people say, or might think
    I ain’t going no place, no I’m here to stay
    Gonna keep on doing my thing
    Cause whether they love or they’re hatin’ on me
    I’ll still be the same POTUS I used to be
    Coz I ain’t going no place, no I’m here to stay

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