We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

financed special research institutes investigating lethal gases and methods of execution.

I witnessed the gruesome workings of the machinery of death; gear meshed with gear, like clockwork,

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

It was the biggest and most enormous dance of death of all times.

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.