by Scott Horton
Remarks to the ASIL Centennial Conference on The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial Bowling Green, Ohio October 7, 2006
"In France, innumerable summary executions occur, even as I sit here writing. Each day certainly more than a thousand people are killed, and thousands of German men experience murder as a matter of routine. And yet all of that is child's play compared to what's going on in Poland and Russia. Can I learn about this and just sit at the table in my heated apartment and drink tea? Don't I establish my complicity simply by doing nothing? What will I say in the future, when someone asks me: and what did you do during this time?" - Helmuth von Moltke, in a letter to his wife, Oct. 19, 1941
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