“Everything you say, Reichenau, is totally unmilitaristic.”
To Walther von Reichenau. Quoted in "Hitler's Generals" - Page 210 - by Correlli Barnett - History - 2003
Friedrich Paulus est un Generalfeldmarschall du Troisième Reich qui s'est illustré au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Il mène en 1942 la 6e armée allemande jusqu'à Stalingrad, où il est encerclé et défait par l’Armée rouge : Paulus se rend le 31 janvier 1943, le lendemain de sa nomination par Hitler au grade de Generalfeldmarschall de l’Armée de terre allemande.
Collaborant avec ses anciens ennemis, il devient très critique à l'égard du régime nazi, servant la propagande de guerre soviétique. Il est un témoin à charge lors des procès de Nuremberg.
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“Everything you say, Reichenau, is totally unmilitaristic.”
To Walther von Reichenau. Quoted in "Hitler's Generals" - Page 210 - by Correlli Barnett - History - 2003
“You are talking to dead men here.”
To a Luftwaffe officer sent to Stalingrad. Quoted in "Voices From The Third Reich: An Oral History" - Page 152 - by Johannes Steinhoff, Peter Pechel, Helmut D. Schmidt, Dennis E. Showalter - History - 1994
Adolf Hitler, about Paulus surrendering instead of committing suicide.
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
To A. Schmidt and others - February 4th, 1943. Quoted in "Report of the Special Section of the Don Front NKVD to Special Sections Department of NKVD USSR"
Radio message to Adolf Hitler, January 24, 1943. Quoted in "The World Changers" - Page 171 - by Bruce Bliven - 1965
Report about Friedrich Paulus by German Army soldier in 1927
“A very clever man though perhaps not a very strong character.”
Erich von Manstein to Leon Goldensohn, June 14, 1946.