Eastern Inferno Quotes

“A senior chief told me the other day: “You should know that the ac complishments of your soldiers will be written in capital letters on the first page of the immortal book of great deeds of the German soldiers in the year 1942, even when the newspapers report less about them than about the obvious successes of the other fronts.” We are thankful for the kind words.”
― Christine Alexander, Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjager on the Eastern Front, 1941-43

“general staff and the divisions there exists usually only a single radio wire; between the divisions and the regiments and battalions, there are only messengers. The failure of the Russian radio service came home to them bitterly, and the defeat of the Red leadership can be primarily attributed to it.”
― Christine Alexander, Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjager on the Eastern Front, 1941-43