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TIL the German Reichstag/parliament in 1933 voted to give Hitler absolute control. 1 person spoke against it:Social Democratic leader Otto Wels, who 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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