05-16-2007, 01:36 PM
To paraphrase one of Jodl's commands, he gave the Wehrmacht permission to treat civilians in the occupied countries as ruthlessly as they wished, including "hanging them upside down." He was not the officer & gentleman that he attempted to be treated as....None of them were really, including Albert Speers, who should also have been hanged in 1946. (This opinion was given to me by *Armin Lehman in an email also.)
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