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With this horrendous murder of the Jews we have lost the war. We have brought an indelible shame upon ourselves, a curse that cannot be lifted. We deserve no mercy, we are all guilty together.
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16 June 1943; attributed by Richard J. Evans in "Why Did Stauffenberg Plant the Bomb?", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 January 2009

 

Wilm Hosenfeld

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