A war is not lost until you consider it lost.
Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man’s strength of character.
If Paulus’s army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary.
Prussian Field Marshals do not mutiny.