• I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

    Hermann Goring: I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!
    Closing statement to the Nuremberg tribunal on August 31, 1946. "Witness to Nuremberg" by Richard Sonnenfeldt, p. 70, 2006.