Fromm allowed him to retain his revolver to take his own life, and permitted Olbricht to write a last letter to his wife, then he announced a summary court martial in the name of the Führer, and pronounced sentence of death on ‘Colonel of the General Staff Mertz [von Quirnheim], General Olbricht, the Colonel’, indicating von Stauffenberg, ‘whom I will not name, and Oberleutnant von Haeften.’ He ordered their immediate execution. So the revolt collapsed inwards at the centre. It had already broken down and for the same reasons in the provinces and Vienna and Prague.
