"It was true enough, he did not appear ashamed — merely worried about his own immunity from trial as a war criminal."

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“There is no reason to believe that Milch was not absolutely sincere in his idealistic belief in Imperial Germany. Its destruction, however, caused a fundamental change in him: idealism in Erhard Milch was extinguished forever. From this period on, Milch became more and more the slave of his own ruthless ambition.”

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