Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.

- Otto Ohlendorf

There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans s…

- Otto Ohlendorf

The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children bur…

- Otto Ohlendorf

In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.

- Otto Ohlendorf

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.

- Otto Ohlendorf