"If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces agai…"

"I tried at that time to relieve the Sixth Army, of which I was supreme commander, above Paulus, by counterattacks - b…"

"The will for victory which gives a commander the strength to see a grave crisis through is something very different f…"

"It has always been the particular forte of German leadership to grant wide scope to the self-dependence of subordinat…"

"But it is a well-known maxim of war that whoever tries to hold on to everything at once, finishes up by holding nothi…"

"He was not only the most brilliant strategist of all our generals, but he had a good political sense. A man of that q…"

"The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved t…"

"He is the best tactician and combat commander we have."

"Master of the Blitzkrieg."

"Manstein despised Göring and loathed Himmler. To his most trusted colleagues he admitted to Jewish antecedents. He co…"