Otto Ohlendorf quotes
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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.”
-- Otto OhlendorfSource : 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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“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.”
-- Otto OhlendorfSource : "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.”
-- Otto OhlendorfSource : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
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“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.”
-- Otto OhlendorfSource : 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.”
-- Otto OhlendorfSource : "Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror". Book by Os Guinness, p.92, 2005.
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“A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.”
Source : Keep the Faith, Baby! "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power" (1967)
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“It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.”
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“Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better”
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