“Isn't it dreadful? Here we are, two officers of the German General Staff, discussing how best to murder our commander in chief. It must be done. This is our only chance… Hitler must be cut down like a rabid dog.”

—  Henning von Tresckow

1943. Roger Moorhouse, Killing Hitler, p. 249.

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