Frases de Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel foi um Marechal de Campo do exército alemão durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, chefe do comando supremo das Forças Armadas após 1938 e conselheiro militar de Adolf Hitler.

Ditou os termos do armistício com a França e foi membro do tribunal que julgou muitos dos oficiais que foram condenados à morte pelo papel que desempenharam na conspiração de julho de 1944. Assinou a rendição incondicional da Alemanha, em Berlim, a 8 de maio de 1945. Julgado em Nuremberg por crimes de guerra, foi enforcado em outubro de 1946. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. Setembro 1882 – 16. Outubro 1946
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Wilhelm Keitel: Frases em inglês

“I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.”

To Leon Goldensohn, March 27, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

“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.”

To Leon Goldensohn, April 6, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

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

After receiving the death sentence, quoted in "Nuremberg Diary" by G. M. Gilbert - History - 1995

“I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.”

To Leon Goldensohn, March 27, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

“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.”

To Leon Goldensohn, May 17, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 166