Quote #10

Dietrich quite openly criticised measures taken by the Fuhrer. He complains that the Fuhrer does not give his military staff a sufficiently free hand and that this tendency has now become so pronounced that the Fuhrer even lays down the employment of individual companies. But Dietrich is in no position to judge. The Fuhrer cannot rely on his military advisers. They have so often deceived him and thrown dust in his eyes that he now has to attend to every detail. Thank God he does attend to them, for if he did not, matters would be even worse than they are anyway.

More from Sepp Dietrich

  1. It was the Hitler Offensive. It was brilliantly planned by Hitler but poorly executed by the generals. It was not Rundstedt who was at faul…
  2. That's your reward for all that you have done in these past five years!? I'd rather be shot than obey that order!
  3. He (Hitler) knew even less than the rest. He allowed himself to be taken for a sucker by everyone.
  4. All I had to do was to cross the river, capture Brussels, and then go on to take the port of Antwerp. The snow was waist-deep and there was…
  5. There was no Geneva Convention. But we didn't shoot Russians either. Where would we get three million prisoners if we shot all the Russians…
  6. We fought against an enemy six times as large as us.
  7. All Asiatics are cruel dogs. All they captured of my soldiers, they beat to death. The Russian soldiers are very brave, stable, tough.
  8. I never actively engaged in politics, never made speeches. Politics is a whore. It's too high for me. Just as I don't understand American p…

All Sepp Dietrich quotes