"Now comes death, now one must hold one's head high!"
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Words spoken - according to an eyewitness - by Landauer when he was beaten and kicked to death (2 May 1919). (According to another eyewitness he cried to his assassins: "Kill me then! Since you are men!") Martin Buber's Life and Work, vol. I by M. Friedman 1981, p. 254
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Gustav Landauer
1870 – 1919
deutscher Anarchist, Schriftsteller und Ăśbersetzer
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