I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.