Men and women Quote by Al Zelczer

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as…

— Gunter Grass

The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve together. The…

— Jeff Cooper

I was not a member of the SS.

— Albert Speer

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

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership…

— Gunter Grass

“The disillusion among the rank-and-file Nazis, especially among the S.A. storm troopers, who formed the large core of Hitler’s mass movement, was great. Most…

— William L. Shirer

“They stopped briefly at an inn near the town of Altaussee, a tidy village tucked in the woods near a pristine alpine lake. Outside,…

— Robert M. Edsel

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused…

— Fritz Sauckel

The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.

— Hans Frank

On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

— Hans Frank

My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man.

— Reinhold Messner

I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pull for the people who are wearing…

— Tommy Lasorda