Friedrich Paulus: Man

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“What hurts me the most, personally, is that I still promoted him to field marshal. I wanted to give him this final satisfaction… a man like that besmirches the heroism of so many others at the last moment. He could have freed himself from all sorrow and ascended into eternity and national immortality, but he prefers to go to Moscow.”

Friedrich Paulus

Adolf Hitler, about Paulus surrendering instead of committing suicide.

Personality , Hurt

“The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man and the last round for Führer and Fatherland unto the end.”

Friedrich Paulus

Radio message to Adolf Hitler, January 31, 1943. Quoted in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" - Page 931 - by William Lawrence Shirer - Germany - 1990

“A very clever man though perhaps not a very strong character.”

Friedrich Paulus

Erich von Manstein to Leon Goldensohn, June 14, 1946.

Strong