Letter from Fritz Gerlich
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 it because i must ask one more thing of you... please live.
Urge other to speak out even when what they have to say is not popular. Tell them to embrace courage as a gift and pass them on to their children.
You have always been my hope the promise of goodness, truth and devotion. Knowing that those qualities still survive in this world lets me leave it with a lighter heart.
Don't mourn i have 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...
Letter was written from the Dachau Concentration Camp.
Thousands were imprisoned and murdered after Hitler's and NSDAP's rise to power.
The Gestapo (secret state police) under Heinrich Himmler destroyed the liberal, Socialist and Communist opposition and persecuted the Jews, trying to force them into exile, while taking their property. The Party took control of the courts, local government, and all civic organizations except the Protestant and Catholic churches.
Between 1933 and 1945, more than 3.5 million Germans had been in concentration camps or prison for political reasons, and approximately 77,000 Germans were killed for one or another form of resistance by Special Courts, courts martial, and the civil justice system.
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