“Oh, Field Marshal, so far it would have been a funeral without military honors, maybe now it can become one with military honors.”

—  Dietrich von Choltitz

In a conversation with Günther von Kluge, August 1944 (quoted in a book brennt paris? - adolf hitler)

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