Even today, I can not say with certainty whether he himself… - Dietrich von Choltitz

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Even today, I can not say with certainty whether he himself believed in his words or whether he was knowingly deceiving those around him to urge him to keep to the end.

Dietrich von Choltitz

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Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz (9 November 1894 – 4 November 1966) was a German General who served in the Royal Saxon Army during World War I and the German Army during World War II. He is chiefly remembered for his role as the last commander of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944, when he disobeyed Adolf Hitler's orders to level the city, but instead surrendered it to Free French forces.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Adolf Eichmann George S. Patton Hermann Göring Karl Dönitz

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