“Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.”

Die Welt memoirs (1999)

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German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer 1906–1962

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