Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail … - Wilhelm Keitel

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Wilhelm Keitel

Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.

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