"Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State."
— Otto Ohlendorf

January 1, 1970

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Confessing to the execution of 90,000 Jews at the Nuremberg Trials. Quoted in "Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny" - Page 141 - by Edward Crankshaw - History - 1956.