"I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity."
— Wilhelm Keitel

January 1, 1970

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To Leon Goldensohn, March 27, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004