Quotes by Wilhelm Keitel - Page 1

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.
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Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
Wilhelm Keitel /
Consideration
Crime
Kind
People
Soldier
German
Front
German People
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This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
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War
Agreement
Conventions
Geneva
Geneva Convention
Agreements
Convention
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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.
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Known
Knows
Son
Shoot
Join
Ss
Rather
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A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.
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Ideas
Order
Practice
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I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.
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Believe
Military
Soldier
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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 /
Past
Soldier
Years
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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 /
Circles
Feelings
Matter
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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 share.
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Order
Should Have
Suicide
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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 lead to success.
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War
Children
Empowered
Mean
Troops
Bound
Therefore
Women And Children
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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 follow now my sons - all for Germany.
Wilhelm Keitel /
People
Son
Two
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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. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.
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Obedience
Soldier
Virtue
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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 strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.
Wilhelm Keitel /
War
Balkans
Brutality
East
Plague
Sufficient
Bands
Disposal
Master
Foreseeable
Foreseeable Future
Fought
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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 recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate.
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Loyalty
Fate
Giving
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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? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.
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Men
Failing
Wrecks
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Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other respects he had soft and touching emotions. Just as he could be terribly brutal in following up political ideas, so he could be humanely sensitive for the feelings of individuals, for the individual human life.
Wilhelm Keitel /
Children
Ideas
Political
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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 the most brutal means, we will shortly reach the point where the available forces are insufficient to control the area. It is therefore not only justified, but it is the duty of the troops to use all means without restriction, even against women and children, so long as it ensures success.
Wilhelm Keitel /
War
Children
Mean
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