“You are a very interesting case, General. Do you know what fat file of evidence we have against you here?”

To General Walter Dornberger, 1944. Quoted in "Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny" - by Edward Crankshaw

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German police official and head of the Gestapo 1900–1945

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