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    Leipzig Prison (Strafvollzugseinrichtung Leipzig, later Justizvollzugsanstalt Leipzig) was a prison in Leipzig, Germany. Built together with an adjacent...
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    his trial, Teske was executed in a secret part of Leipzig Prison on Alfred-Kästner-Straße, Leipzig, by executioner Hermann Lorenz [de]. Teske was shot...
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    executed in Germany was the East German Werner Teske, who was executed at Leipzig Prison in 1981. A 1949 opinion poll, when West Germany abolished capital punishment...
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  • clemency. After he declined to intervene, Horst was guillotined at Leipzig Prison on December 22, 1962. Horst's remains were cremated, and he was buried...
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  • 400 villagers in Poland, and sentenced to death. Schuster was shot at Leipzig Prison in 1973. His body was cremated and buried in an unmarked grave. In 1994...
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  • Ulbricht declined to intervene. Schäfer was subsequently guillotined at Leipzig Prison on 16 June 1961. His remains were cremated, and he was buried in an...
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    and sentenced to death by the Erfurt regional court; he was executed in Leipzig on 29 July 1969. Blösche was born in Friedland in Böhmen, Austrian Empire...
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    and Vasil Tanev) were acquitted. Van der Lubbe was guillotined in a Leipzig prison yard on 10 January 1934, three days before his 25th birthday. He was...
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  • Honecker declined to intervene, Feustel was executed by shooting at Leipzig Prison on May 8, 1973. His body and belongings were then cremated, and he was...
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  • history of the German city of Leipzig. 920 AD - Emperor Henry the Fowler "built a castle here about 920." 1015 - Leipzig is mentioned in Thietmar's chronicle...
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    to the Stockhaus, an inner-city prison, at the beginning of the 19th century, and in 1830 the guard room of the Leipzig municipal guard moved into the...
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    Small Fortress (Terezín) (category Prisons in the Czech Republic)
    183 people. Wachholz was sentenced to death in 1968, and executed at Leipzig Prison on 28 April 1969. In 2000, German officials also arrested Anton Malloth...
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  • the West. Swinka was sentenced to death, and on October 1, 1970, at Leipzig Prison, shot from close range by executioner Hermann Lorenz. The body was then...
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    Reichstag fire (redirect from Leipzig Trial)
    senate of the Reich Supreme Court in Leipzig from September 21 to December 23 in 1933. The trial known as the Leipzig Trial took place and was presided over...
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  • Walter Ulbricht refused clemency, Fischer was executed by guillotine in Leipzig on 8 July 1966, one of the last persons to be executed in this way in East...
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  • Ulbricht rejected his petition for clemency. Puhr was guillotined at Leipzig Prison on 15 April 1964. His remains were then cremated, and he was buried...
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  • Brandenburg, East Germany Died 15 September 1972(1972-09-15) (aged 20) Leipzig Prison, Leipzig, East Germany Cause of death Execution by shooting Criminal status...
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    Leipzig's history has been shaped by its importance as a trading centre. Initially, its favourable location at the crossroads of trade routes and the...
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    Stasi (section Leipzig)
    August 2019 Runde Ecke Leipzig (in English) Archived 18 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 18 August 2019 Runde Ecke Leipzig. Stasi Bunker Museum...
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    times, including in the concentration camp Sachsenhausen and in the Leipzig prison in 1944–45. In 1945, he became the "People's Commissioner for Culture"...
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    and sentenced to death. Baumgartner, 60, was executed by shooting at Leipzig Prison on 16 September 1971. In 1971, a court in West Germany (Hannover Landgericht)...
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    The Leipzig war crimes trials were held in 1921 to try alleged German war criminals of the First World War before the German Reichsgericht (Supreme Court)...
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    St. Matthew was a church in the old town of Leipzig. During its history it had several names and functions. As a church of the Franciscan order, built...
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  • Edition Ingolstadt Edition Karlsruhe Edition Kassel Edition Kiel Edition Leipzig Edition Lübeck Edition Magdeburg Edition Mainz Edition Munich Edition Nuremberg...
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    Walter Cramer (category People educated at the St. Thomas School, Leipzig)
    He was hanged at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin on 14 November 1944. In 1945, a street in the Gohlis neighbourhood of Leipzig was named Walter-Cramer-Straße...
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  • In Leipzig, as in other German cities, Jews and Jewish institutions suffered from attacks during the events called Kristallnacht, from November 9–10,...
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  • Nazi Concentration Camps, also known as Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps, is a 1945 American film that documents the liberation of Nazi concentration...
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    The Leipzig city gates were structural facilities that existed from the Middle Ages to the 19th century to regulate and control the movement of people...
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  • numerous youths sent to penitentiaries, youth prisons or reformatories. The Meuten became active in Leipzig around 1937, and such as members of Blasen[incomprehensible]...
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    Johannes Popitz (category Leipzig University alumni)
    sociologist. As a pharmacist's son from Leipzig, Popitz studied political science and law in Dessau, Lausanne, Leipzig, Berlin and Halle. From 1907 to 1918...
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