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Josef Dietrich, dit Sepp Dietrich, est un SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer et criminel de guerre nazi, né le 28 mai 1892 à Hawangen, district de Memmingen en Bavière, et mort le 24 avril 1966 à Ludwigsbourg, dans le Bade-Wurtemberg.

Adhérent du parti nazi dès 1926 et ayant rejoint la SS, puis la SS-Verfügungstruppe , il y a exercé des commandements opérationnels ponctués par des massacres de civils et de prisonniers, pendant toute la durée de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, achevant cette dernière à la tête d'une armée. Il est aussi connu pour avoir été un des principaux assassins ayant participé, en juin 1934, à la première opération d’épuration politique de grande ampleur du régime hitlérien, surnommée « nuit des Longs Couteaux ».

Il a été jugé et condamné, notamment pour crimes de guerre, mais n'a effectué qu'une petite partie de ses peines. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. mai 1892 – 21. avril 1966
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Josef Dietrich: Citations en anglais

“(In early 1945) We call ourselves the "6th Panzer Army", because we've only got 6 Panzers left.”

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Mitcham, Samuel W. (2006). Panzers in Winter: Hitler's Army and the Battle of the Bulge. p. 166.

“He (Hitler) knew even less than the rest. He allowed himself to be taken for a sucker by everyone.”

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To David Irving, from "Hitler's Gladiator: The Life and Wars of Panzer Army Commander Sepp Dietrich" - by Charles Messenger - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - Page 174

“All Asiatics are cruel dogs. All they captured of my soldiers, they beat to death. The Russian soldiers are very brave, stable, tough.”

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To Leon Goldensohn, February 28, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

“I'm iron. I lasted through ten years of war, and now I can last through this. It's true, it's not good for the nerves.”

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To Leon Goldensohn, February 28, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 280

“There was no Geneva Convention. But we didn't shoot Russians either. Where would we get three million prisoners if we shot all the Russians? Propaganda! You can't open your mouth, even in the biggest democracy. Do you think it's so nice to sit in prison after ten years of war for the Fatherland? If I would be God, I would do it differently!”

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To Leon Goldensohn, February 28, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

“We fought against an enemy six times as large as us.”

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To Leon Goldensohn, February 28, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

“All I had to do was to cross the river, capture Brussels, and then go on to take the port of Antwerp. The snow was waist-deep and there wasn’t room to deploy four tanks abreast, let alone six armored divisions. It didn’t get light until eight and was dark again at four, and my tanks can’t fight at night. And all this at Christmas time!”

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About the Ardennes Offensive, quoted in "SS: Hell on the Western Front" - Page 166 - by Chris Bishop, Michael Williams - History - 2003

“Dietrich quite openly criticised measures taken by the Führer. He complains that the Führer does not give his military staff a sufficiently free hand and that this tendency has now become so pronounced that the Führer even lays down the employment of individual companies. But Dietrich is in no position to judge. The Führer cannot rely on his military advisers. They have so often deceived him and thrown dust in his eyes that he now has to attend to every detail. Thank God he does attend to them, for if he did not, matters would be even worse than they are anyway.”

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Joseph Goebbels, diary entry, March 2, 1945

“It was the Hitler Offensive. It was brilliantly planned by Hitler but poorly executed by the generals. It was not Rundstedt who was at fault so much as Dietrich and his Sixth Army, which was not capable. Dietrich was no army commander and should never have been made one. This Sixth Army was an all-motorized panzer force.”

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Hermann Göring, to Leon Goldensohn, May 24, 1946

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