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 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.

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.

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.

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.

Sacred space in whichTo distil, like amber, The best of your love.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment in between.

No reference is truly direct — every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

Can you imagine Grandmaster Flash on a laptop?

I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run.