Otto Ohlendorf: Order

Otto Ohlendorf was German general. Explore interesting quotes on order.
Otto Ohlendorf: 22   quotes 0   likes

“Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.”

Confessing to the execution of 90,000 Jews at the Nuremberg Trials. Quoted in "Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny" - Page 141 - by Edward Crankshaw - History - 1956.

“There was no distinction made between Gypsies and Jews, the same order applied to both.”

At the Nuremberg Trials. Quoted in "Winter Time: Memoirs of a German Sinto who Survived Auschwitz" - Page 146 - by Walter Winter, Struan Robertson - History - 2004.