Manfred von Richthofen Quotes
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
Richthofen, Manfred von. The Red Battle Flyer. Translated by J. Ellis Barker, Robert M. McBride & Co., 1918, p. 113.
The colonists did not have great support from England before the Revolution especially with science and technology were British policy was to keep the colonies dependent on the mother country. As a result many Americans had to be very ingenious in order to function and they invented many clever ways of doing things without the right tools and equipment. Under wartime conditions this served them well.
He was parodying Lincoln’s famous quotation: {609284}.
At the time Japan had a strong Fascist military wing and the army was not under the control of the civilian government. The government diplomats were less aggressive and expansionist as the military was. The Japanese diplomats would assure other governments like the United States of their peaceful intentions and then the Japanese army would do something that was completely contradictory. As the militarist wing gained domination over the government, the diplomats would strategically lie, and then claim what whatever the army did, was done be rogue officers and was not part of government policy. See {627085}.
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, known in English as Baron von Richthofen, and most famously as the "Red Baron", was a fighter pilot with the German Air Force during World War I. He is considered the ace-of-aces of the war, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories.
