Otto Wels

Otto Wels

The German Reichstag/parliament in 1933 voted to give Hitler absolute control. One person spoke against it: Social Democratic leader Otto Wels spoke the last free words in the Reichstag: "You can take our lives & our freedom, but you cannot take our honor. We are defenseless but not honorless."

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