Otto Ohlendorf citations

Otto Ohlendorf, né le 4 février 1907 à Hoheneggelsen , Söhlde et mort le 7 juin 1951 à Landsberg am Lech, est un SS-Gruppenführer travaillant à la fois pour le RSHA et le ministère de l'Économie. Commandant d'un Einsatzgruppe, il a été responsable en Ukraine de l'assassinat de dizaines de milliers de Juifs dans le cadre de la Shoah. Il est témoin de l'accusation au procès de Nuremberg, mais en position d'accusé au procès des Einsatzgruppen où il est condamné à mort le 18 avril 1948. Il est pendu trois ans plus tard. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. février 1907 – 7. juin 1951
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Otto Ohlendorf: Citations en anglais

“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.

“Those Jews stood up, were lined up, and were shot in true military fashion. I saw to it that no atrocities or brutalities occurred.”

To Leon Goldensohn, March 1, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.”

Quoted in "Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror" - Page 92 - by Os Guinness - 2005.

“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.

“In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.”

To Leon Goldensohn, March 1, 1946, after Goldensohn asks Ohlendorf, "How did you figure a six month old Jewish infant must be killed - was it an enemy? Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.”

To Leon Goldensohn, March 1, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

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