"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."

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Source : "Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror". Book by Os Guinness, p.92, 2005.

Otto Ohlendorf

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