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Friedrich Paulus
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“Troops without ammunition or food. Effective command no longer possible. 18,000 wounded without any supplies or dressings or drugs. Further defence senseless. Collapse inevitable. Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.”
Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radio message to Adolf Hitler, January 24, 1943. Quoted in "The World Changers" - Page 171 - by Bruce Bliven - 1965
“The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man and the last round for Führer and Fatherland unto the end.”
Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radio message to Adolf Hitler, January 31, 1943. Quoted in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" - Page 931 - by William Lawrence Shirer - Germany - 1990
“You are talking to dead men here.”
Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To a Luftwaffe officer sent to Stalingrad. Quoted in "Voices From The Third Reich: An Oral History" - Page 152 - by Johannes Steinhoff, Peter Pechel, Helmut D. Schmidt, Dennis E. Showalter - History - 1994
“Everything you say, Reichenau, is totally unmilitaristic.”
Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Walther von Reichenau. Quoted in "Hitler's Generals" - Page 210 - by Correlli Barnett - History - 2003
“Soldiers were and will remain soldiers. They fight, carrying out their duty, not thinking about the reasons, true to their military oath. And the beginning and the end of war is the business of politicians, to whom the situation at the front dictates these or other decisions.”
Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To A. Schmidt and others - February 4th, 1943. Quoted in "Report of the Special Section of the Don Front NKVD to Special Sections Department of NKVD USSR