Plötzensee Prison (German: Justizvollzugsanstalt Plötzensee, JVA Plötzensee) is a men's prison in the Charlottenburg-Nord locality of Berlin with a capacity...
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Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (category People from Bavaria executed at Plötzensee Prison)
was one of eight conspirators executed by strangulation, hanged in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, later that day. Before he was killed Berthold was strangled...
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July 1944. Many of those found guilty by the court were executed in Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. The proceedings of the court were often even less than...
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Erwin Planck (category People from Berlin executed at Plötzensee Prison)
was ignored. Planck was executed by hanging on 23 January 1945 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. A memorial plaque dedicated to Erwin Planck and his fellow...
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Elfriede Scholz (category People from Lower Saxony executed at Plötzensee Prison)
Roland Freisler on October 29, 1943. She was directed for execution to Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, but authorities unexpectedly cancelled the execution, because...
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conversion of the shore into a public park in the 1920s. Plötzensee also gives its name to Plötzensee Prison, built nearby in the 19th century, which reached...
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Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
sentenced him to death, and he was hanged on 10 November 1944 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. He married from 1908 to 1910 Elisabeth von Sobbe (Burg...
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Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (category People from Berlin executed at Plötzensee Prison)
Freisler. He was found guilty of high treason and hanged the same day at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 21 August 1941 as General...
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Helmuth Hübener (category People from Hamburg executed at Plötzensee Prison)
execution room at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. His two friends, Schnibbe and Wobbe, who had also been arrested, were given prison sentences of five and...
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Georg Hansen (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
Hansen (5 July 1904, Sonnefeld, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 8 September 1944, Plötzensee, Germany) was an Oberst (Colonel) in the Generalstab (General Staff of...
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Erwin von Witzleben (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
Reichssache).[citation needed] Witzleben was put to death the same day at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. By Hitler's direct orders, he was hanged from a meat hook...
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Alexis von Roenne (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
he was found guilty by the show trial and hanged on a meat hook at Plötzensee Prison on 12 October 1944. His final epitaph to his wife, Ursula von Bülow...
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Paul Ogorzow (category People executed by guillotine at Plötzensee Prison)
Kriminalpolizei, Ogorzow was convicted of killing eight women and executed at Plötzensee Prison. Paul Ogorzow was born on 29 September 1912 in the village of Muntowen...
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o'clock in the morning, Schumann was executed in the courtyard of the Plötzensee Prison by Prussian executioner (Scharfrichter) Carl Gröpler, using the axe...
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Helmuth James von Moltke (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
sentenced to death on 11 January 1945 and hanged twelve days later at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. In a letter written while in custody, he revealed his motivation...
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Johannes Popitz (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
Popitz's fate was sealed, and he was hanged on 2 February 1945 at Plötzensee Prison, in Berlin. "Reich Nominees in Prussia". The Times (London). 1 November...
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Erich Hoepner (category People from Brandenburg executed at Plötzensee Prison)
Hoepner was hanged by wire mounted from meat hooks on 8 August, at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. Under the Nazi practice of Sippenhaft (collective punishment)...
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Adam von Trott zu Solz (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
the Volksgerichtshof (People's Court), he was hanged in Berlin's Plötzensee Prison on 26 August. Trott is one of five Germans who are commemorated on...
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Julius Leber (category Executions at Plötzensee Prison)
Leber was sentenced to death, and executed on 5 January 1945 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. A bridge in Berlin-Schöneberg is named after Julius Leber...
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Halifax Gibbet Henri Désiré Landru Rozalia Lubomirska Marcel Petiot Plötzensee Prison Jozef Raskin Use of capital punishment by nation Eugen Weidmann "guillotine"...
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Julius Fučík (journalist) (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
with Fučík. Fučík was hanged two weeks later on 8 September 1943 in Plötzensee Prison in Berlin (not beheaded as is often stated). After the war, his wife...
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Caesar von Hofacker (category People from Baden-Württemberg executed at Plötzensee Prison)
found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. He was hanged at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. Hofacker's memorial, using the umlaut spelling variant...
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of espionage and were beheaded by Gröpler on 18 February 1935 in Plötzensee Prison. Carl Gröpler is credited with at least 144 executions in his 30 years...
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Hellmuth Stieff (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
Stieff was executed by hanging in the afternoon of that same day at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. German Resistance Joachim Fest (1994). Plotting Hitler's...
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Alfred Delp (category People from Baden-Württemberg executed at Plötzensee Prison)
behind their backs. The sentence was carried out on 2 February 1945 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. The next day, Roland Freisler was killed in an air-raid...
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Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
"People's Court" (Volksgerichtshof) and immediate execution by hanging at Plötzensee Prison on 13 October 1944, is almost unknown, apart from the slender details...
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Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
restraint. He was finally executed by hanging on 2 February 1945 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin with two other men: Johannes Popitz and Alfred Delp. While...
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Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
and sentenced him to death. Schulenburg was executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin later the same day, 10 August 1944. Ulrich Heinemann, Ein...
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Carl Wentzel (category People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison)
was a German farmer and agricultural contractor. He was executed at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin following the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler....
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Helmut Hirsch (category People from Baden-Württemberg executed at Plötzensee Prison)
interrogated, first in Stuttgart, then after his transfer to Berlin's Plötzensee Prison. He was charged with conspiracy to commit high treason, and was indicted...
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