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[via a letter to his wife]

My dearest Sophie. I don't know when, or if, I will ever see you again. I don't say this to shock. I say this because I must ask one more thing if you; please live. Urge others to speak out, even when what they have to say is not popular. Tell them to embrace courage as a gift, and pass it onto their children. [a montage ensues of Gerlich and other prisoners being escorted to Dachau Concentration Camp, and various arrests and executions of perceived Nazi opponents during the Night of the Long Knives, before we cut to Gerlich about to be executed in his cell at Dachau] You have always been my hope; the promise of goodness, and truth, and devotion. Knowing that those qualities still survive in this world lets me leave it with a lighter heart. Don't mourn; I've given everything I have to this struggle, and my only option, now, is to give the last, most precious thing. It will mark this moment in time forever, so that people will remember. Yours always, Fritz.