Otto Ohlendorf Quotes

• 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 burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies.

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  Children   Men   Cities  

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 1, 1946.

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• 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.

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  Soldier   Cogs   Machines  

  "Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror". Book by Os Guinness, p.92, 2005.

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

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  Should Have   Numbers   Population  

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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

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  Children   Problem  

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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

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  Order   Leader   States  

  Confessing to the execution of 90,000 Jews at the Nuremberg Trials; Quoted in "Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny" by Edward Crankshaw, p.141, 1956.

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