If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know. — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years. — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front. — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity. — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other respects he had soft and touching… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist. — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice. — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
