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1. Who on November 6, 1941 said: "Modern war is a war of motors. The war will be won by whichever side produces the most motors. The combined motor production of the USA, Britain, and the USSR is at least three times that of Germany"?
2. What German propaganda minister in a 1943 speech said: "In the East a whole people are forced to go into the struggle; men, and even children are driven not only into armaments factories but into battle itself"?
3. "When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven." Who said this?
4. Referring to General Dwight Eisenhower, who said: "Nice chap, no general"?
5. "How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" was uttered by what leader?
6. In a speech broadcast from Rome in 1942 who said: "Today Russia has lost its most fertile lands, the richest in prime raw materials, has lost from 80,000,000 to 90,000,000 of its inhabitants. Those lands permit us to view the future ... with greater confidence. I can state that, so far, Anglo-American assistance has been very meager"?
7. Who drafted a statement, for which in the event there was no need and was never delivered, containing the following: "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops"?
8. To whom did Stalin direct the following: "I am warning you for the last time. If you once more allow yourself to forget your duty to the Stavka you will be removed from your post of Chief of the General Staff and you will be recalled from the front."
9. Explaining his decision not to participate in a conspiracy against Hitler, who wrote: "It was clear to me that any attempt to make the necessary changes by force would lead to the collapse of our front. The thought that the Russians would get through to Germany ruled out any violent change as much as did the Anglo-Saxon demand for unconditional surrender"?
10. In the early days of Operation Barbarossa what chief of staff of the German Army wrote in his diary on July 3, 1941: "On the whole, then, one can even now say that the objective of shattering the bulk of the Russian army in front of the Dvina and Dnieper has been accomplished"?
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