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Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist foi um Marechal de Campo alemão durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, havendo-se destacado como um dos principais comandantes da Wehrmacht naquele conflito. Os momentos mais importantes de sua carreira, inclusive os que lhe valeram a promoção ao posto de Marechal de Campo, ocorreram em momentos de quase-derrota ou retirada. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Agosto 1881 – 13. Novembro 1954
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Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist: Frases em inglês

“The Russians were five times superior to us poor but brave Germans, both in numbers and in the superiority of their equipment. My immediate commander was Hitler himself. Unfortunately, Hitler's advice in those critical periods was invariably lousy.”

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To Leon Goldensohn (25 June 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews", Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellatel (2004).

“Ewald von Kleist was an officer and a gentleman in an era when such characteristics were liabilities.”

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Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., in Hitler's Generals (2003)

“It is interesting but it was tragic. If you receive a military order you must obey. That is where the big difference between a military and a political order comes in. One can sabotage a political order but to disobey a military command is treason.”

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To Leon Goldensohn (25 June 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews", Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellatel (2004).

“Recently I was discharged from the German army while in this prison and was informed that I am on the so-called war criminal list number seven. I haven't the faintest idea of what war crime I could have committed. The main thing is that I have a clear conscience.”

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To Leon Goldensohn (12 June 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews", Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellatel (2004).