I simply cannot do it. The Russians have branded me a war criminal and the Americans would be sure to turn me over to them — for hanging.
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About surrendering. Quoted in "Hitler's Commander: Field Marshal Walther Model" - Page 358 - by Steven H. Newton - Biography & Autobiography - 2005Walter Model
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
George F. Kennan
To think of Russians sitting on a bench in Nuremberg, trying German leaders! The Russians sank a German boat with men, women, and children aboard. I know of the case. But is that investigated? You Americans weren't completely without fault, either. You armed merchant boats before the U.S.A. was in the war.
Karl Donitz
I am firmly convinced that Bormann will show up - that either the Americans or the Russians have him in custody and will try to create a sensation, for news effect, when his case comes up, and suddenly produce him. I once heard that Bormann had given himself up to the Russians. Bormann is being treated in absentia just as if he were sitting in the dock. He left Berlin in a tank. His secretary made a statement that she saw this tank struck by shells and that Bormann was killed. I doubt if one could take Bormann's secretary's word for what was happening.
Martin Bormann
I for one would never be a party, unless the law were clear, to saying to any man who put forward his views on those most sacred things, that he should be branded as apparently criminal because he differed from the majority of mankind in his religious views or convictions on the subject of religion. If that were so, we should get into ages and times which, thank God, we do not live in, when people were put to death for opinions and beliefs which now almost all of us believe to be true.
John Coleridge
On the purpose of NATO: "To keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down."
Hastings Ismay
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