Paris is like a pretty woman; when she gives you a smack, you don't smack back. - Dietrich von Choltitz

Since Sevastopol, it has been my fate to cover the retreat of our armies and destroy the cities behind them.

We all share the guilt. We went along with everything, and we half-took the Nazis seriously instead of saying "to hell with you and your stupid nonsense". I misled my soldiers into believing this rubbish. I feel utterly ashamed of myself. Perhaps we bear even more guilt than these uneducated animals.

Have you read Churchill's speech? Appalling beyond all words! A Jewish brigade to go to Germany! Then the French will take the west and the Poles the east. The hate in that speech! I am completely shattered.