[LydiaLong]

You’re quoting Hitler?

You screwed up
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I think he was quoting Shirer.

[Moonmad27]

But who was Shirer quoting? I would remove that awful quote, myself.

[katana]

Nope, that was Adolph musing about a country whose latent power he could not imagine just after we'd entered the war and before North Africa, Sicily, and Stalingrad. The Japanese, except for Adm. Yamamoto who knew what he would face after Pearl Harbor, thought we were soft based on Busby Berkley and Hollywood. Dictators often mistake freedom and indiscipline for weakness. Von Steuben commented that when instructing Washington's recruits that he had to explain why - through a translator - they were doing things in the way he taught them. Prussian boys just obeyed.