Jodl was most bewildered by being held responsible for his acts as a soldier. ‘I don’t see how they can fail to recognize a soldier’s obligation to obey orders. That’s the code I’ve lived by all my life.’ Obviously he had not recently read the commandment in his army paybook which forbade any soldier to obey illegal orders. Nor had Keitel who commented on Gilbert’s indictment: ‘For a soldier, orders are orders.’

— The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa, John Tusa (24%)