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Ever since our enemies have refused to listen to and obey our Führer, the whole war has gone badly.

— Dietrich von Choltitz

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Since Sevastopol, it has been my fate to cover the retreat of our armies and destroy the cities behind them.

Oh, Field Marshal, so far it would have been a funeral without military honors, maybe now it can become one with military honors.

Paris is like a pretty woman; when she gives you a smack, you don't smack back.

I am a soldier. I get orders. I execute them.

I stood in front of him and I saw an old, stooped, bloated man with gray, slick hair, barely standing on his legs.

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