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TIL: Sophie Scholl was a German woman executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets. Her last words were: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to offer themselves up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go.”

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