Wilhelm Keitel Quotes
I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.
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.
This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
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.
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.
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.
I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.
No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist.
A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.
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.
Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.