Es ist Zeit, daß jetzt etwas getan wird. Derjenige allerdings, der etwas zu tun wagt, muß sich bewußt sein, daß er wohl als Verräter in die deutsche Geschichte eingehen wird. Unterläßt er jedoch die Tat, dann wäre er ein Verräter vor seinem eigenen Gewissen.
It is time now that something must be done. However, the one who dares to do something must be aware that he will go down as a traitor in German history. But if he leaves the act undone, then he would be a traitor to his own conscience.
It is time now that something must be done. However, the one who dares to do something must be aware that he will go down as a traitor in German history. But if he leaves the act undone, then he would be a traitor to his own conscience.
—Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907 – 1944), German officer and member of the resistance against Adolf Hitler, shortly before his failed attempt to kill Hitler with a bomb on July 20, 1944.
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