order as my superior by putting it on record; in other words, he silently approved. Colonel General Hoeppner, with whom another commanding general, [ ... ]
case with your conception of the military duty to obey? ditional, but at all times there were cases during wars where higher military leaders did not [ ... ]
army in accordance with the order from the supreme commanders of the army that discipline was to be observed strictly? to the conception which we had [ ... ]
fore me and gave him an order to punish the men, and I told him myself that the next time he would face a court martial if any such excesses were perm [ ... ]
were required to support the work we had to do, and for that reason they were, of course, decently treated. After all, we had about 100,000--sometime [ ... ]
still not capable of working; all communications and telephone exchanges had been destroyed; many industrial plants had been destroyed; the largo dam [ ... ]
Q And wasn't there planned destruction too? areas by order of Hitler. There was planned destruction to a considerable [ ... ]
monuments preserved. A large portion in the Krimm, the Southern Sector, for instance was already found destroyed, but then, we preserved other monume [ ... ]
Q Did you know anything about conditions in the concentration camps? A No. I know as [ ... ]
Q How is it that this war was not conducted by soldiers? "gallant conception of warfare" did not do things like that. [ ... ]