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