Is to accept the leadership of a crumbling country a crime? Is to prevent the Russians, the natural enemy of Germany, from obtaining our arms and manpower a crime? In Russian eyes it probably is. But I'm referring to the eyes of a westerner. I knew that we had to capitulate and I wanted it to be to the Americans and British, and not to the East. I'm not even accused of war crimes in the sense of the atrocities. It's clear they have no case against me. I came into a powerful position in 1943. How can I be accused of a conspiracy?

I'm an old man at fifty-four, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

The trial can only end in a mistake because it is founded on one. How can a foreign court try a sovereign government of another country? Could we have tried yo…

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in …

A son [Timon le Misanthrope] exemple ie denonce a ces calumniateurs diaboliques, que tous ayent a se pendre dedans le dernier chanteau de ceste lune. Ie les fo…

We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy,…