Alfred Jodl quotes
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“The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.”
-- Alfred JodlSource : "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany". Book by William Lawrence Shirer, p. 422 (Munich Conference, September 29, 1938), 1990.
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“My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.”
-- Alfred JodlSource : "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson (November 7, 1943 speech to Gauleiters in Munich), 1997.
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“It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.”
-- Alfred JodlSource : "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 347 (August 10, 1938), 1997.
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“In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient only if all resistance is punished not by legal prosecution of the guilty but by the spreading of such terror by the occupying power as is appropriate to eradicate every inclination to resist among the population. The competent commanders must find the means of keeping order not by demanding more security forces but by applying suitable Draconian methods.”
-- Alfred JodlSource : "The Nuremberg Trial and International Law". Book by George Ginsburgs, p. 163 (July 23, 1941 order issued to the German Arm), 1990.
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“The indictment knocked me on the head. First of all, I hand no idea at all about 90 per cent of the accusations in it. The crimes are horrible beyond belief, if they are true. Secondly, I don't see how they can fail to recognize a soldier's obligation to obey orders. That's the code I've live by all my life.”
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“Death - by hanging! - that, at least, I did not deserve. The death part - all right, somebody has to stand for the responsibility. But that - that I did not deserve!”
-- Alfred JodlSource : Letter to Dr. G. M. Gilbert. Quoted in "Nuremberg Diary" by G. M. Gilbert, 1995.
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“Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.”
-- Alfred JodlSource : Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 17, 1946.
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“To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions.”
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“Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.”
-- Alfred Jodl
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“I cried when Mario Gotze told me hell leave Borussia Dortmund & join Bayern Munich”
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Source : Michel Seuphor (1964). “Abstract Painting: 50 Years of Accomplishment, from Kandinsky to the Present”
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“I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.”
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“I love the city and the people of Munich. I have many great friends there.”
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“History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.”
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“To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up.”
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