Home › Authors › Paul Blobel
Paul Blobel Quotes
1894–1951 Germany
Paul Blobel (August 13, 1894 – June 8, 1951) was a German SS-Standartenführer (Colonel) and a member of the SD. Blobel was primarily responsible for the Babi Yar massacre at Kiev.
Also known as: Blobel, Paul
Random Paul Blobel quote
7 quotes
Our men taking part in the executions suffered more from nervous exhaustion than those who were to be shot.
I die in the faith of my people. May the German people be aware of its enemies!
Every spy and saboteur knew what he had to expect when he was arrested.
The nervous strain was far heavier in the case of our men who carried out the executions than in that of their victims. From the psychological point of view they had a terrible time.
The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.
I would not say that they were happy. They knew what was going to happen to them. Of course, they were told what was going to happen to them, and they were resigned to their fate, and that is the strange thing about these people in the East.
Here lie my thirty-thousand Jews.
Topics Paul Blobel is quoted on