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

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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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About Otto Ohlendorf

Otto Ohlendorf (February 4, 1907 – June 7, 1951) was a German SS functionary and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era. An economist by education, he was head of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Inland, responsible for intelligence and security within Germany. In 1941, Ohlendorf was appointed the commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which perpetrated mass murder in Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea and, during 1942, the North Caucasus. He was tried at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, convicted and executed in 1951.

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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.
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