General Erwin von Witzleben speaking in the Nazi People’s Court which sentenced him to die for his involvement in the 20 July Plot, 1944. [508×800]

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1. HerrasKissa

   You may hand us over to the executioner, but in three months’ time the disgusted and harried people will bring you to book and drag you alive through the dirt in the streets.

   — Erwin von Witzleben, to judge Roland Freisler, after his death sentence

2. Brickie78

   And I believe delivered verbatim by David Schofield in Valkyrie.