Franz wrote to his mother from a Berlin detention center: “With what I knew, if I had taken the [military] oath, I would have committed a sin deserving death. That would be evil to me.
كتب فرانز الى امه من سجن برلين :‏ « لو اقسمت اليمين [العسكرية] لارتكبت خطية تستحق الموت ولَكان ذلك بمثابة خيانة .‏