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Top 10 Wilhelm Keitel Quotes (2025 Update)

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.”

1. “Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.”

— Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.”

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

— Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons – all for Germany.”

3. “I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons – all for Germany.”

— Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.”

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

— Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “If I had known it I would have told my son, I’d rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn’t know.”

5. “If I had known it I would have told my son, I’d rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn’t know.”

— Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.”

6. “If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.”

— Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.”

8. “A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.”

— Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier’s performance to his duty. That is my fate.”

9. “It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier’s performance to his duty. That is my fate.”

— Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “Hitler gave us orders – and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.”

10. “Hitler gave us orders – and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.”

— Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.”

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

— Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.”

12. “This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.”

— Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel Quote: “The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.”

13. “The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.”

— Wilhelm Keitel

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