“I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in the future.”

—  Friedrich Kellner

“Ich entschloss mich, die Nazis in der Zukunft zu bekämpfen,” Giessener Anzeiger, Giessen, Germany, April 6, 2005.
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