Oh, Field Marshal, so far it would have been a funeral with… - Dietrich von Choltitz

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Oh, Field Marshal, so far it would have been a funeral without military honors, maybe now it can become one with military honors.

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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Alternative Names: Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz

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

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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.

No doubt: I was in front of a madman. The awareness that the existence of our people was in the hands of an insane person, unable to dominate the situation [...] weighed on me with all its strength.

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

Oh, Field Marshal, so far it would have been a funeral without military honors, maybe now it can become one with military honors. - Dietrich von Choltitz

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