Here is a site dedicated to the History of Ploetzensee Prison where many an enemy of the Naz regime met a chilling fate, including the 1944 conspirator Mildred Harnack-Fish
Description: Assigned -- Never forget! Memorial place for the victims of the Nazi regime in Berlin Plötzensee Picture: The death cells in the destroyed Zellengefängnis of Plötzensee. Here the victims spent their last hour. More Pictures of Victims on trial before their death.
And the man who took so good care of it all. Dr. Roland Freisler. Roland Freisler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The number of death sentences rose sharply under Freisler's stewardship. Approximately 90% of all proceedings ended with sentences of death or life imprisonment, the sentences frequently having been determined before the trial. Between 1942 and 1945 more than 5,000 death sentences were handed out, and of these, 2,600 through the court's First Senate, which Freisler headed. Thus, Freisler alone was responsible, in his three years on the court, for as many death sentences as all other senate sessions of the court together in the entire time the court existed, between 1934 and 1945. Freisler was particularly known for humiliating defendants and shouting loudly at them. A number of the trials for defendants in the July 20 Plot before the People's Court were filmed and recorded. In the 1944 trial against Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, for example, Freisler shouted so loudly that the technicians who were filming the proceeding had major problems making the defendant's words audible. Graf von Schwerin, like many other defendants in the plot, was sentenced to death by hanging. Among this and other show trials, Freisler headed the 1943 proceedings against the members of the White Rose resistance group, and ordered many of its members to be executed by guillotine.
The young girl Sophie Scholl from the White Rose group was sentenced by him and executed by guillotine. Regards Andy
His ending was nothing short of poetic justice, killed by Allied Bombs whilst sitting in judgement of one of the July 20th plotters.
His ending was nothing short of poetic justice, killed by Allied Bombs whilst sitting in judgement of one of the July 20th plotters. Absolutely. Regards Tom
Seems an appropriate thread for this on the Plötzensee Prison & Execution site - more chilling stuff: Plötzensee Memorial Center Memorial centre Booklet (c.4Mb .pdf) : http://www.gdw-berlin.de/pdf/englisch-screen.pdf Other threads on resistance to Hitler: Hitler Resistance The White Rose Quite tempted to merge them all into one?