Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888–1927) Italian American anarchist executed by Massachusetts
Last words http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0823.html (April 15, 1920)
“I am ashamed to have belonged in an army, that witnessed and tolerated all these crimes.”
von Alvensleben, Udo (1971): Lauter Abschiede. Tagebuch im Kriege. Berlin: Ullstein, p. 257.
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