“No other troops in the world but German paratroops could have stood up to such an ordeal and then gone on fighting with such ferocity.”

— Harold Alexander

Quoted in Peter Caddick-Adams: "Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell" (Oxford University Press, 2013) p. 289.

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