“The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow.”

To Leon Goldensohn, 6/6/46, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - Page 151 - History - 2004

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Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany executed for … 1903–1946

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