Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying by Neitzel Sonke & Welzer Harald

Author:Neitzel, Sonke & Welzer, Harald [Neitzel, Sonke & Welzer, Harald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0307958124
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2012-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

Higher-ranking officers, for example, Major General Gerhard Bassenge, were particularly concerned about being held responsible for the things that had been carried out with or without Hitler’s knowledge:

BASSENGE: We have been completely deceived by our FÜHRER. We were … … with completely wrong assumptions—the path was forced on us. The oath was sworn in 1933, when HINDENBURG was still there, and when conditions were quite different. After one year things were quite different—by then we had taken the oath!518

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