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„Unser Kampf möge den lebenden und kommenden Generationen ein Beispiel dafür sein, auch in der hoffnungslosesten Lage nie zu kapitulieren, dann wird Deutschland siegen.“

Friedrich Paulus

Funkspruch aus Stalingrad an Hitler am 29. Januar 1943 anlässlich des zehnten Jahrestages der Machtergreifung; Abendblatt: Rückkehr nach Stalingrad http://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article170641/Rueckkehr-nach-Stalingrad.html, 20. Januar 2003, abgerufen am 16. April 2010
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Friedrich Paulus: Zitate auf Englisch

“Everything you say, Reichenau, is totally unmilitaristic.”

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To Walther von Reichenau. Quoted in "Hitler's Generals" - Page 210 - by Correlli Barnett - History - 2003

“You are talking to dead men here.”

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To a Luftwaffe officer sent to Stalingrad. Quoted in "Voices From The Third Reich: An Oral History" - Page 152 - by Johannes Steinhoff, Peter Pechel, Helmut D. Schmidt, Dennis E. Showalter - History - 1994

“What hurts me the most, personally, is that I still promoted him to field marshal. I wanted to give him this final satisfaction… a man like that besmirches the heroism of so many others at the last moment. He could have freed himself from all sorrow and ascended into eternity and national immortality, but he prefers to go to Moscow.”

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Adolf Hitler, about Paulus surrendering instead of committing suicide.

“The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man and the last round for Führer and Fatherland unto the end.”

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Radio message to Adolf Hitler, January 31, 1943. Quoted in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" - Page 931 - by William Lawrence Shirer - Germany - 1990

“Soldiers were and will remain soldiers. They fight, carrying out their duty, not thinking about the reasons, true to their military oath. And the beginning and the end of war is the business of politicians, to whom the situation at the front dictates these or other decisions.”

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To A. Schmidt and others - February 4th, 1943. Quoted in "Report of the Special Section of the Don Front NKVD to Special Sections Department of NKVD USSR"