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Regarding the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, Von der Heydte said, "Half a million people have been put to death there for certain. I know that all the Jews from Bavaria were taken there. Yet the camp never became over-crowded. They gassed mental defectives, too."
"What would you do in my place?" ---on June 10th, 1944, replying to a request of surrender by American paratroopers
"The battle for Crete was to prove the overture to the great tragedy which reached its climax at El Alamein and Stalingrad. For the first time there had stood against us a brave and relentless opponent on a battleground which favoured him."
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