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Erich Julius Eberhard von dem Bach-Zelewski byl veterán první světové války, pozdější válečný zločinec a vysoký důstojník Waffen-SS a Policie za druhé světové války v hodnosti SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS und Polizei . Zároveň to byl i nositel mnoha vojenských vyznamenání včetně rytířského kříže železného kříže nebo německého kříže ve zlatě.

Veřejnosti se stal nechvalně známým díky svému působení jako vyšší šéf SS a policie ve střední části okupovaného Sovětského svazu, kde měl na svědomí tisíce zavražděných a také díky svému brutálnímu zásahu proti obyvatelstvu během Varšavského povstání v srpnu roku 1944. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. březen 1899 – 8. březen 1972
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“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.”

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Quoted in Survivors, Victims, and Perpetrators : Essays on the Nazi Holocaust (1980) by Joel E. Dimsdale, p. 35

“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.”

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To Leon Goldensohn (14 February 1946) from The Nuremberg Interviews (2004) by Leon Goldensohn and Robert Gellately

“From May until August, I went on a search for Himmler. Finally, I gave myself up voluntarily in August 1945. I went from one village to another looking for Himmler in order to kill him. I also wanted to find my family, whose whereabouts I did not know. I didn't know what the future held in store for me. At that time, I thought it was certain that since I was an SS general, I would be taken prisoner and executed at once.”

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To Leon Goldensohn (14 February 1946) from The Nuremberg Interviews (2004) by Leon Goldensohn and Robert Gellately

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

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To Leon Goldensohn (14 February 1946) from The Nuremberg Interviews (2004) by Leon Goldensohn and Robert Gellately

“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.”

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Hjalmar Schacht to Leon Goldensohn (10 March 1946)

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

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Adolf Hitler, as quoted in The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II (1978) by Thomas D. Parrish and Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, p. 45