"Take a step or two forward lads.....it will be easier that way."

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Original Language: English
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German: "Kommt einen Schritt näher, Jungs. Das wird es leichter machen."

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His last words to the firing squad, lined up before him holding rifles, at his execution. Cited in " The Riddle of Erskine Childers " By Andrew Boyle, Hutchinson, London (1977), pg. 25.