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Otto Ohlendorf Quotes

1907–1951 Germany

Otto Ohlendorf (February 4, 1907 – June 7, 1951) was a German SS functionary and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era. An economist by education, he was head of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Inland, responsible for intelligence and security within Germany.

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

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.

Those Jews stood up, were lined up, and were shot in true military fashion. I saw to it that no atrocities or brutalities occurred.

There was no distinction made between Gypsies and Jews, the same order applied to both.

In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.

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.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Otto Ohlendorf (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.