Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other … - Wilhelm Keitel

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I don't think I'm ever going to have the kind of life or schedule that I can really have a steady way of doing things.

Wilhelm Keitel

Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other respects he had soft and touching emotions. Just as he could be terribly brutal in following up political ideas, so he could be humanely sensitive for the feelings of individuals, for the individual human life.

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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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If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.

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Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.

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