“I do not believe that I have made myself guilty.”

— Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Ich bekenne mich nicht schuldig.
12/10/45. Quoted in "Nürnberg: Tribunal der Sieger" - Page 95 - by Werner Maser - Nuremberg, Germany - 1979

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