Was joking, thought you made it up. Said Sherman as a joke in regards to the scorched earth policy he used in the march to the sea of the American civil war
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red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoIt’s attributed to Hitler. But after just having looked into it, it seems dubious.
derry@midwest.social 2 days ago
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
A little too poetic for Sherman anyway. “War is hell” was definitely one of his quotes though.
mEEGal@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’ve fooled anyone, it’s an easy mistake to make
His actual quote is “WENN DU WIE DIE SONNE SCHEINEN WILLST, MUSST DU ZUERT WIE SIE BRENNEN”
and I think it’s beautiful
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I can’t find a source for it, though. It’s definitely not from Mein Kampf, as I went through all occurrences of Sonne and it’s not there. There is one quote in there that says: “only once the sun went down can the moon shine”, but that’s quite different. I think it’s just another misattributed quote.