Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink of the mass grave where they had to kneel down, their faces turned towards the grave. When the men were ready for the execution one of my leaders who was in charge of this execution squad gave the order to shoot. Since they were kneeling on the brink of the mass grave, the victims fell, as a rule, at once into the mass grave.

Every spy and saboteur knew what he had to expect when he was arrested.

I have always used rather large execution squads, since I declined to use men who were specialists for shots in the neck (Genickschussspezialisten). Each squad…

The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the Germa…

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We think that powerful and lifeful movement is impossible without differences - 'true conformity' is possible only in the cemetery.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.