Top 5 Quotes by Otto Ohlendorf

Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.

Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.

Otto Ohlendorf

Order, Leader, States

Confessing to the execution of 90,000 Jews at the Nuremberg Trials; Quoted in "Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny" by Edward Crankshaw, p.141, 1956.

The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies.

Otto Ohlendorf

Children, Men, Cities

Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 1, 1946.

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.

Otto Ohlendorf

Soldier, Cogs, Machines

"Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror". Book by Os Guinness, p.92, 2005.

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.

Otto Ohlendorf

Should Have, Numbers, Population

"The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.