Dietrich von Choltitz (1894–1966) German general
Quoted in History Channel 5-part series "The Wehrmacht" in the episode "The Crimes".
“Equally striking is the fact that racial anti-Semitism was not taken seriously even by the great majority of Nazis. ‘It is just a catchword to attract voters’ was a standing phrase which everybody repeated and believed, and that I took it seriously was more than once regarded as definite proof of my stupidity and gullibility.”
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The End of Economic Man (1939), p. 17
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