22 Quotes by Wilhelm Keitel

If I had known it I would have told my son, I’d rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn’t know.

It isn’t right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier’s performance to his duty. That is my fate.

Hitler gave us orders – and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.