Wilhelm Keitel Soldier Quotations

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.