A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice..

This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with th….

Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other respects he had soft and touching emoti….

Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his sh….

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity..

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared..

Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? ….

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obe….

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the streng….

It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recog….

I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I ….

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will le….

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention..

No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist..

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know..

I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years..

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front..