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)

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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