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I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front — it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

— Karl Dönitz

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With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.

I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

By placing these people with foreign ideas in camps, German blood was saved. Would it have been better to have a civil war?

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I would rather eat dirt than see my grandchildren grow up in the filthy, poisonous atmosphere of Jewry.

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