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…

- Wilhelm Keitel

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? …

- Wilhelm Keitel

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

- Wilhelm Keitel

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

- Wilhelm Keitel

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.

- Wilhelm Keitel

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

- Wilhelm Keitel

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

- Wilhelm Keitel

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…

- Wilhelm Keitel

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…

- Wilhelm Keitel