#Plötzensee

[mhgbrown]

[rwpohl]

die bleierne zeit, margarethe von trotta 1981

[badbreed1111]

"Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. Born in Milwaukee, she was 26 when she moved to Germany to pursue a PhD. As an American grad student in Berlin, she saw Germany swiftly progress from democracy to fascist dictatorship. She and her husband Arvid began holding secret meetings in their apartment. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution.

"Mildred Harnack nicknamed their resistance group “the Circle.” The group was diverse: its members were Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, atheist. They were factory workers and office workers, students and professors, journalists and artists. Over 40% were women.

...

"The Gestapo arrested Mildred Harnack on Sept 7, 1942 and gave her group a name: the Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra). Postwar testimonies and notes smuggled out of a Berlin women's prison describe the daily interrogations and torture that Mildred and others in the group endured.

"Mildred Harnack and 75 of her German coconspirators were forced to undergo a mass trial at the highest military court in Nazi Germany. A panel of 5 judges sentenced her to 6 years at a prison camp but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution

"Before her execution Mildred spent the last hours of her life in a prison cell translating poems by Goethe. The title of my book ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS is a line from one of them. A prison chaplain smuggled out the book of poems under the folds of his robe

"On February 16, 1943 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, Mildred Harnack was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. According to all available records, she was the only American in the leadership of the German resistance to Hitler." 😯😏👇🏾

[captain-price-unofficially]

Ursula Goetze, member of the Red Orchestra, an anti-Nazi resistance group in Germany. After her arrest, she was murdered in Plötzensee on 5 Aug 1943

[bruceburgdorf]

Truth & Treason

Trailer for the upcoming movie Truth & Treason about the brave actions of Helmuth Hübener and his friends mentioned in my earlier post two-young-german-resistance-fighters.

He was the youngest German to have been tried by the People’s Court for resistance activities and was executed by guillotene in Plötzensee prison at just 16 years old.

I‘m really looking forward to watching this and seeing how his life is portrayed even I though I have a preference for Germans to be portrayed by actual Germans if possible.

[bizarrepotpourri]

The execution of Benita von Falkenhayn, from the Polish history series Sensacje XX Wieku. This particular episode was filmed in 2015, first one in the revival series made for the National Geographic channel.

The series, created in 1983 by journalist Bogusław Wołoszański, is famous for dramatized reenactments of historical events, starring well-known Polish actors, as a part of its narrative.

Benita von Falkenhayn was recruited by Polish intelligence operative, Captain Jerzy Sosnowski, who monitored the covert German attempts at developing air and armored warfare forbidden by the Versailles treaty. In 1934, Sosnowski's operation was broken up by the Gestapo, and while he was sentenced to life imprisonment and later exchanged for German agents apprehended in Poland, both Benita von Falkenhayn and another woman working for Sosnowski, Renate von Natzmer, were sentenced to death and beheaded in the Plötzensee prison.

[herstory-storiesaboutwomen]

Liselotte Herrmann (called "Lilo", 23 June 1909 – 20 June 1938, executed) was a German Communist resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. Herrmann was the first woman to be sentenced to death by a Nazi court and then executed in Plötzensee Prison in 1938. Via Wikipedia

Lilo Herrmann with her son, Walter in 1935

Hannah Ryggen „Liselotte Hermann“

[sports-insider]

Lauf für Gefangene: Meine Erlebnisse beim Knastlauf in der JVA Plötzensee

[wheremymindgoeswandering]

"Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. Born in Milwaukee, she was 26 when she moved to Germany to pursue a PhD. As an American grad student in Berlin, she saw Germany swiftly progress from democracy to fascist dictatorship. She and her husband Arvid began holding secret meetings in their apartment. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution.

"Mildred Harnack nicknamed their resistance group “the Circle.” The group was diverse: its members were Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, atheist. They were factory workers and office workers, students and professors, journalists and artists. Over 40% were women.

...

"The Gestapo arrested Mildred Harnack on Sept 7, 1942 and gave her group a name: the Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra). Postwar testimonies and notes smuggled out of a Berlin women's prison describe the daily interrogations and torture that Mildred and others in the group endured.

"Mildred Harnack and 75 of her German coconspirators were forced to undergo a mass trial at the highest military court in Nazi Germany. A panel of 5 judges sentenced her to 6 years at a prison camp but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution

"Before her execution Mildred spent the last hours of her life in a prison cell translating poems by Goethe. The title of my book ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS is a line from one of them. A prison chaplain smuggled out the book of poems under the folds of his robe

"On February 16, 1943 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, Mildred Harnack was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. According to all available records, she was the only American in the leadership of the German resistance to Hitler."

[unobjectif]

Nice day today!! Had breakfast with Matt before he went to his German lesson and then went to the library to get some Telc practice books (me and Thea want to do the B1 test at the end of July). Then I came home and chilled out before going to a party at plötzensee in the evening. Summer is starting I feel!!!

[rwpohl]

deportationsmahnmal putlitzbrücke, photographs berlin 2019

[thermaldamage54]

"Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. Born in Milwaukee, she was 26 when she moved to Germany to pursue a PhD. As an American grad student in Berlin, she saw Germany swiftly progress from democracy to fascist dictatorship. She and her husband Arvid began holding secret meetings in their apartment. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution.

"Mildred Harnack nicknamed their resistance group “the Circle.” The group was diverse: its members were Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, atheist. They were factory workers and office workers, students and professors, journalists and artists. Over 40% were women.

...

"The Gestapo arrested Mildred Harnack on Sept 7, 1942 and gave her group a name: the Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra). Postwar testimonies and notes smuggled out of a Berlin women's prison describe the daily interrogations and torture that Mildred and others in the group endured.

"Mildred Harnack and 75 of her German coconspirators were forced to undergo a mass trial at the highest military court in Nazi Germany. A panel of 5 judges sentenced her to 6 years at a prison camp but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution

"Before her execution Mildred spent the last hours of her life in a prison cell translating poems by Goethe. The title of my book ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS is a line from one of them. A prison chaplain smuggled out the book of poems under the folds of his robe

"On February 16, 1943 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, Mildred Harnack was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. According to all available records, she was the only American in the leadership of the German resistance to Hitler."

More great pictures and info here:

[suzanneberlin]

19. April 2025 Berlin Wedding

Osterfeuer am Plötzensee. Es gibt eine Feuershow, Pizza und Nirvana. E. (39) ist enttäuscht, dass das Feuer eingezäunt ist.

[emathion]

Wegen etwa hundert Klebezetteln gegen das NS-Regime wurde Liane Berkowitz heute vor 81 Jahren, am 5. August 1943, zwei Tage vor ihrem 20. Geburtstag, in der Haftanstalt Plötzensee mit dem Fallbeil geköpft. Sie gehörte zur Widerstandsgruppe „Rote Kapelle.“

[valkyries-things]

MARIANNE JOACHIM // RESISTANCE FIGHTER

“She was a Jewish German resistance activist during the Nazi years. She was executed at Plötzensee on 4 March 1943 following an arson attack the previous summer on the party propaganda department's (ironically named) "Soviet Paradise" exhibition in Berlin's "Lustgarten" pleasure park.”

[korrektheiten]

Alexander Wallasch:» Mein Großonkel hing in Plötzensee am Schweinehaken http://dlvr.it/T9qtYC «