"To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift."

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I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

— Karl Donitz