I hardly recognize him here. He was very egocentric, tried to get ahea — Erich von dem Bach

"I was the only SS leader in Russia who was not assassinated or upon whom an assassination was never attempted. I could walk anywhere without a bodyguard."

"Germany could not win this war because it was in league with the devil. This war would not have ended without revolution."

"Von dem Bach is so clever he can do anything, get around anything."

"I am the only living witness but I must say the truth. Contrary to the opinion of the National Socialists that the Jews were a highly organized group, the appalling fact was that they had no organization whatsoever. The mass of the Jewish people were taken completely by surprise. Never before has a people gone so unsuspectingly to its disaster. After the first anti-Jewish actions of the Germans, they thought now the wave was over and so they walked back to their undoing."

"Bach-Zelewski is a liar and a criminal — a terrible man. I repeat, he is a liar, a criminal, and a killer. I have proof of what I am saying about myself, but I know that Bach-Zelewski is a frightful liar."

"But to go back to Bach-Zelewski — I think Bach-Zelewski has the kind of personality that cant differentiate between the truth and lies. He gets himself so much into the whole thing he cant differentiate. He convinces himself and believes he has gone so far that he has to die for the cause. Originally it was not the truth, but he so convinces himself — hes ready to die for it."