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== Quotes == | == Quotes == | ||
{{Quote|As long as I'm not in Germany, I don't want to delude myself or despair. Too many times my dreams of freedom have been disappointed.|Herbert Kappler on wanting to return to Germany.}}{{Quote|I was forced to order that no chaplain attend the execution. It is, in fact, terrible for a dying person to be separated from the priest.|Herbert Kappler}}{{Quote|I felt the responsibility of execution terrible on me. I feverishly studied the modalities. I called my officers to report and briefed them on the situation and gave them orders. Each commander had to participate in the execution by firing a shot from a machine gun. This was a symbolic necessity.|Herbert Kappler on the [[Ardeatine massacre]]}} | {{Quote|As long as I'm not in Germany, I don't want to delude myself or despair. Too many times my dreams of freedom have been disappointed.|Herbert Kappler on wanting to return to Germany.}}{{Quote|I was forced to order that no chaplain attend the execution. It is, in fact, terrible for a dying person to be separated from the priest.|Herbert Kappler}}{{Quote|I felt the responsibility of execution terrible on me. I feverishly studied the modalities. I called my officers to report and briefed them on the situation and gave them orders. Each commander had to participate in the execution by firing a shot from a machine gun. This was a symbolic necessity.|Herbert Kappler on the [[Ardeatine massacre]]}} | ||
== Gallery == | |||
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="220" heights="220" perrow="4"> | |||
File:Kappler1 little.jpg|Herbert Kappler's mugshot. | |||
File:KH.jpg|Herbert Kappler entering in the courtroom. | |||
</gallery> | |||
== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||