Wilhelm Keitel Quotes
Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.
Keitel, Wilhelm. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel. Edited by Walter Görlitz, translated by David Irving, William Kimber, 1965, p. 23.
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal and war criminal who held office as Chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the high command of Nazi Germany's Armed Forces, during the Second World War. In that capacity, Keitel signed a number of criminal orders and directives that led to a war of unprecedented brutality and criminality.