1/23/45 Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was executed for plotting vs. Hitler. Staking his opposition on religious grounds, he bade the German people recognize that "what is happening is sin and that they are personally responsible for each terrible deed that has been committed."
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A distinguished lawyer, nephew of a famous general, he gathered an ecumenical group to discuss the Christian principles of a post-Hitler future. He stood before the court "not as a Protestant, not as an aristocrat, not as a German, but as a Christian and nothing else."