Otto Ohlendorf

There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.

— Otto Ohlendorf

Fascism is a purely stately principle. Mussolini said in 1932, 'The first thing is the state - and from the state are derived the rights and fate of the people. Humans come second.' In National Socialism, it was the opposite. People and humans come first, and the state is secondary.

— Otto Ohlendorf

In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.

— Otto Ohlendorf

Those Jews stood up, were lined up, and were shot in true military fashion. I saw to it that no atrocities or brutalities occurred.

— Otto Ohlendorf

The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies.

— Otto Ohlendorf

Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.

— Otto Ohlendorf

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.

— Otto Ohlendorf

There was no distinction made between Gypsies and Jews, the same order applied to both.

— Otto Ohlendorf