Bendlerblock (where Stauffenberg was executed) and Plötzensee Prison Memorial. Berlin. 2015
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The Bendlerblock is a building complex in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, Germany.
The building is notable as the headquarters of a resistance group of Wehrmacht officers who carried out the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler in 1944.
Plötzensee Prison.
During the period 1933 to 1945 the Nazis executed over 2,500 political prisoners at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.
Plötzensee memorial | Gedenkstätte Plötzensee, Berlin
Plötzensee memorial in Berlin.
This was hanging place of anti-Nazis during Hitler's terror. As I understood the house is a replica but gallows are original.
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Plötzenseen muistomerkki, Berliini. Natsien vastustaja hirtettiin täällä. Ymmärtääkseni rakennus ei ole alkuperäinen koska vanha tuhottiin sodan lopussa mutta hirttopaalut ovat alkuperäiset ja rakennus muistuttaa alkuperäistä.
The Plötzensee Prison Execution Chamber
Berlin, Germany—I must admit that I've long ago parted company with the vast majority of cops on the death penalty. It's not that those savage, sadistic and cruel thugs who murder innocent people deserve any mercy at all, because they don't.
I will never waiver in my absolute belief in the use of immediate deadly force by any citizen to stop a violent felony crime in progress. Self-defense and the protection of our families is a right given to us by our creator and must never be inhibited by our politicians and bureaucrats.
For me the problem is government. Governments including ours are run by politicians and their appointed political hacks that nearly all enrich themselves and blunder through their turn at public service. Unfortunately as we know only too well these people can't seem to have the simple skills to even count small change.
Even if our government officials are not being malicious or grossly incompetent they constantly make lots of mistakes. Those mistakes happen incredibly too often when it comes to the death penalty. I have favored a higher standard of proof at the minimum rather than that nearly impossible to define term, Reasonable Doubt. Right now murder convictions are based on the guess of some jury.
Governments can and do change in a heartbeat. Other factors such as the steady effort by the nation's prosecutors to allow courts to weigh evidence precluded by our Bill of Rights. Once unconstitutional laws are passed, it can take decades before the courts get around to striking them down.
You may like the political make up of your government today but bad health, elections and political violence can bring you a leader that you will loathe. It is unwise to give more than minimal power to any politicians that affect your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
The power over our very own lives is what many people are willing to entrust politicians to defend and protect. I'm unwilling to do that ever.
Plötzensee Prison was a long-time, Prussian correctional facility for criminals. They supported the idea of the death penalty in Germany. The criminals convicted of despicable, cruel or infamous murder were placed under the executioner's axe at a rate of less than ten per year.
Plötzensee changed when law enforcement duties were handed to thugs and political hacks loyal to Adolph Hitler. The standard of proof was changed and the kinds of allowable evidence in the courts of the Third Reich.
Nazi courtrooms and justice was only allowable for those people not outlawed by mere genetics. Jews and Gypsies had no rights and were deported to resettlement locations where they were simply liquidated in secret.
No less than five thousand Germans were tried and executed for treason for any resistance or disrespect to the Hitler Administration. Thousands of others were sent to work concentration camps inside Germany for very long terms.
Unfortunately the Third Reich is always singled out as an anomaly or very unusual criminal regime. These governments are everywhere in the world today but lack the kind of meticulous record keeping, photographic and film proof created by the Nazis themselves.
The winners of wars never face was crimes trials. Josef Stalin's government murdered tens of millions and their soldiers and bureaucrats raped the women and children of Berlin for years after they controlled this area. They all escaped any civil or military punishment.
The evil of the Third Reich is not some genetic defect that only affects Germans. That evil is in every government on earth waiting for power that citizens will willingly give them.
Americans have the duty to keep a sharp watch over our freedom. We somehow failed as we have passed loads of laws restricting freedom. Hate speech and thought is under attack every day. Imagine if in America you could not openly express hate for someone as evil as Adolph Hitler? That was a capital crime under Nazi law.
Don't trust your government not to abuse the power to kill their own citizens.
Honouring The Dead At Plotzensee Prison (1948)
Berlin, Germany.
CU. Ribbons bearing words of commemoration on wreath. LS. Relatives of the dead entering the Plotzensee prison gates carrying wreaths. LS. City Councillor Hilde Korber (German actress) speaks to deputies and relatives of the dead, & MS. LS. Outside the place of execution. Garlands and wreaths on ground. Town Councillor, Mrs Ehlert, speaking. MS. Mrs Ehlert speaking. LS. Crowd - three shots. MS. Listeners, all men. LS. Mrs Ehlert speaking. MS. Crowd. LS. Mrs. Ehlert speaking. LS. Wreaths and garlands being taken inside execution chamber - various shots. LS. Crowd outside place of execution, people coming out. LS. Interior of execution chamber. MS. Wreaths and garlands piled inside execution chamber. LS. Church, location unknown. LS. Crowds carrying wreaths. Several shots of the relatives of executed persons walking by. SCU. Pan up to wrecked prison. MS. Rear view of band playing. LS. Armoured car passing.
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Date found in the old record - 16/09/1948.
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EW Quickie Berlin: Plötzensee Prison Hitler's Meat Hook Hanging Place
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Seventy years ago, a group of German army officers led an unsuccessful attempt to kill Adolf Hitler and end the Nazi regime. In Berlin, President Joachim Gauck led tributes at the German Resistance Memorial Center.
Germany: Manhunt begins for four escaped Plotzensee prisoners in Berlin
Police have begun their search on Thursday into four Plotzensee prisoners who escaped the Berlin prison following a breakout from a car workshop window by smashing through concrete reinforced bars.
The prisoners were believed to be taking part in a car workshop exercise with the prison when they escaped through a ventilation window in a heating room on Thursday morning.
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Die Gedenkstätte Plötzensee
Die Gedenkstätte Plötzensee für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus aus dem In- und Ausland ist ein Ort des stillen Gedenkens.Zwischen 1933 und 1945 wurden hier fast 3000 Menschen nach Unrechtsurteilen der NS-Justiz hingerichtet. Der Raum, in dem die Hinrichtungen stattfanden, ist heute Gedenkraum. Im Raum daneben wird die Praxis der nationalsozialistischen Justiz dokumentiert.
Informationen über die in Plötzensee Ermordeten finden Sie in der Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, die die Gedenkstätte Plötzensee betreut:
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Plötzensee
Die Verbindung zu Plötzensee ist für die Gedenkkirche Maria Regina Martyrum ebenso wichtig wie für die benachbarte evangelische Gedenkkirche Plötzensee und für das 1984 gegründete Karmelitinnenkloster Regina Martyrum. Die Bereitschaft, vergangenes Leid und die täglich neu begegnenden Leiden so vieler Menschen an sich heranzulassen, gründet in der Offenheit gegenüber Gott und in einer lebendigen Beziehung zu Jesus Christus. So verstehen die Berliner Karmelitinnen ihr Leben in einem umfassenden Sinn als Fürbitte.
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Count Schwerin von Schwanenfeld remains steadfast against Roland Freisler
Schwerin was born the son of the diplomat Ulrich von Schwerin. He lived until the age of twelve with his parents and sisters almost exclusively abroad. Only then his father received as Prussian envoy a German domestic use in Dresden. The family was politically very interested. The environment was conservative, the education christian and strict.
Schwerin gained practical political experience in the confrontation of the German minority with the Polish state. The vast majority of Germans of the former Prussian provinces of West Prussia and Posen, who had come through Versailles to Poland, opted for Germany. Those who remained in the corridor were especially Germans, who were bound by possession. The minority organized itself to defend its securitized by the League of rights. Here, the Foreign Office in Berlin and the League of Nations in Geneva were the main point of contact. Schwerin was for many years the voice of the minority leadership in Poland, which itself could not travel freely in the ministries in Berlin. Within the German minority it came to clashes between the established leadership and the NS-friendly Jungdeutschen Party. Schwerin made his first negative experiences with the Nazis as a student in 1923 as an eyewitness to the march on the Feldherrenhalle. He followed the rise of the NSDAP from 1930 increasingly critical. Hitler's behavior after the murder of Potempa in August 1932 ment a crossroads for him. Schwerin commented on the murders of 30 June 1934 with the words who does not even get it now ... during the so-called Röhm-Putsch.
On the 20th July 1944 Schwerin was in the center of the coup, in the premises of the commander of the Reserve Army in the War Office (now the German Resistance Memorial Center in the Stauffenbergstraße) in Berlin. He was arrested after the failure of the coup along with Yorck, Schulenburg and others shortly before midnight.
Schwerin's detention stations were the house prison of the Gestapo at Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8, the cell block of the Ravensbrück concentration camp and again the Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse. He was sentenced to death and confiscation of property in the fourth trial of the members of the coup on 21 August 1944 by the People's Court under the chairmanship of its President Roland Freisler. During the interrogation Schwerin called as a motive for his resistance activities the many murders that happened at home as abroad, before he was shouted down by Freisler and was described as shabby lump.
On 8 September 1944 the judgment in the prison in Berlin Plotzensee was carried out. His wife, sons and mother came also into custody in Güstrow and Dresden, the two elder sons (second son was Christoph Andreas Graf von Schwerin von Schwanenfeld) have been put in the Kinderinternierungslager Bad Sachsa later.
His body, together with those of the other five executed have been cremated in the crematorium Wilmersdorf on the 8th September 1944. His ashes were passed the next day in a reservoir to the Reich Ministry of Justice. In 1978 his widow erected on the Forest Cemetery in Berlin-Dahlem in the Dept. 10A-11 a cenotaph with epitaph, which is maintained as a memorial grave of the State of Berlin.
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Berlin (West Berlin) 1976 archive footage
Archival footage shot by a West German filmmaker while visiting the Western part of Berlin in 1976.
It contains stock footage of a man dressed like a bear greetings pedestrian in Kurfürstendamm, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, cars, streets, traffic, Airlift Memorial outside Tempelhof airport, Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten, the wall in front of Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag (Bundestag), memorial of people killed by East German police while escaping from East Berlin, Siegessäule (Victory Column), Charlottenburg castle, view a sightseeing bus with a glass roof, Funkturm, SFB (Radio Free Berlin) building, Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Olympiastadion, Kurfürstendamm shop signs at night, Plötzensee Prison, and more.
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In memory of Claus von Stauffenberg
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Bendlerblock Courtyard, Berlin, Germany, May 15, 2016
Visiting Bendlerblock Courtyard in Berlin, site of Claus von Stauffenberg's execution in 1944, after his failed attempt to assassinate Hitler.
Hitler executed 84 German Generals. The 14 important Generals
Nobody escaped the regime of Hitler, even those who served under him. Hitler executed 84 German Generals for various reasons like:
1. The commander of the German Home Army, General Friedrich Fromm, is shot by a firing squad for his part in the July plot to assassinate the Fuhrer.
2. Ludwig Beck was in the custody of General Friedrich Fromm, and he offered to commit suicide (“accept the consequences”). His last words were “I am thinking of earlier times.” Beck then shot himself. In severe distress, Beck succeeded only in severely wounding himself, and a sergeant was brought in to administer the coup de grace by shooting Beck in the back of the neck.
3. Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben was put to death that same day at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. By Hitler’s positive orders, he was strangled with piano wire which had been wound around a meat hook, and the execution was filmed.
4. Erwin Rommel was linked to the conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Because Rommel was a national hero, Hitler desired to eliminate him quietly. He forced Rommel to commit suicide with a cyanide pill, in return for assurances that Rommel’s family would not be persecuted following his death. Rommel died age 52 on 14-10-1944. He was given a state funeral, and it was announced that Rommel had succumbed to his injuries from an earlier strafing of his staff car in Normandy.
5. General Erich Hoepner was implicated in the failed 20 July Plot against Adolf Hitler and executed, age 27 on 08-08-1944.
6. General Fritz Erich Fellgiebel also a conspirator in the 20-07-Plot to assassinate the dictator Hitler. On 10 August 1944, he was found guilty by Roland Freisler and sentenced to death. He was executed, age 57, on 04-09-1944 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.
7. General Karl von Hase he was sentenced to death and hanged later the same day 08-08-1944, age 59, at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. General der Flieger, Bernhard Waber condemned to death for mismanagement and hanged in the Spandau Prison, age 60 on 06-02-1945.
8. Generalleutnant Hermann Becker arrested and court marshalled on 01-12-1944 for impairing defence capabilities and condemned to death, loss of the honour to serve in the defence of the country, executed by firing squad, age 60 on 06-02-1945.
9. General Friedrich von Rabenau was arrested in the aftermath of the plot which culminated in the attempt on Hitler’s life on July 20 1944. On 15-04-1945, without having been charged or tried.
10. General von Rabenau, one of the last inmates remaining in the Flossenburg concentration camp was shot on the specific orders of Himmler, age 60 on 15-04-1945.
11. General Major Otto Herfurt arrested 14-08-1944 in Berlin, sentenced to death 09-09-1944 by order of the People’s Court and executed 09-09-1944, age 51, in Berlin-Plötzensee.
12. General der Artillerie Fritz Lindemann, arrested 03-09-1944 in Dresden, mortally wounded during arrest and died 22-09-1944, age 50 in Berlin, Generalleutnant Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg, arrested 19-11-1944 in ? and executed 02-02-1945, age 46, in Spandau.
13. Generalmajor Heinrich zu Dohna-Tolksdorf, sentenced to death 14-09-1944 by order of the People’s Court and executed 14-09-1944, age 62, in Berlin-Plötzensee.
14. General Karl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, arrested 21-07-1944 in Paris, sentenced to death 30-08-1944 by order of the People’s Court and executed 30-08-1944, age 58, in Berlin-Plötzensee.
Between 1943 and 1945, the People’s Courts under jurist Roland Freisler sentenced around 7,000 people to death. In the first few months of 1945, some 800 people were executed in the Plötzensee prison, over 400 of them being German citizens.
Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal laid to rest in Israel
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1. Body being led into funeral home
2. Mid shot of family members
3. Wide of people at funeral home
4. Rabbi saying prayer
5. Wide of people at funeral home
6. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Rabbi Michael Melchior, Israel's deputy minister for education:
Simon Wiesenthal taught a whole generation that you learn from the past and use your knowledge to build the past, so that there will be hope in the future, hope for the Jewish nation and for the entire humanity.
7. Wide of funeral service
8. Body being led to grave site
9. Body being lowered to grave
10. Close-up of family members
11. Body being covered with stone
12. Sand being poured in
13. Mid shot of people at funeral
14. Man praying
15. People laying wreaths
16. Close-up on wreaths
17. People near grave site
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Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal was lauded on Friday as the conscience of the Holocaust as he was laid to rest in the coastal city of Herzliya in Israel, the country that grew out of the ashes of those dark days.
Hundreds of dignitaries, Holocaust survivors and admirers attended the funeral ceremony for Wiesenthal, who died on Tuesday in his sleep at his Vienna, Austria, home at 96.
A survivor of five Nazi concentration camps and seven other prisons, Wiesenthal spent the rest of his life pursuing Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice.
Representing the Israeli government was Rabbi Michael Melchior, Israel's deputy minister for education.
Melchior said Wiesenthal had taught an entire generation about the Holocaust, and drew upon his past to seek hope and optimism.
Among those attending were foreign diplomats and holocaust survivors.
Dignitaries from the US, Austria and Israel placed wreaths on Wiesenthal's grave, and mourners placed stones, a Jewish tradition.
Wiesenthal weighed just 45 kilogrammes (99 pounds) when a US Army armoured unit liberated him and other inmates at Mauthausen in May
1945.
A survivor of five Nazi concentration camps and seven other prisons, Wiesenthal spent the rest of his life pursuing Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice.
Enlisted by the Americans to research war criminals, he spent more than 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals, speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism, and to being a voice for the six (m) million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
Wiesenthal, who lost 89 relatives in the Holocaust, estimated he helped bring some 1,100 Nazi war criminals to trial.
He was best known for his part in the capture of the SS-leader Adolf Eichmann who was consequently tried and hanged in Israel.
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Germany: Microscopic remains of dissected Nazi prisoners given burial in Berlin
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Seventy-four years after the end of World War II, the microscopic remains of political prisoners killed by the Nazi regime and then used in medical experiments, were finally buried in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Berlin on Monday.
According to reports, more than 300 tissue samples of people who were murdered by the Nazis in the Berlin-Plotzensee Prison were found in 2016 by the family of anatomy professor Hermann Stieve (1886-1952), who reportedly received bodies of Nazi victims for research purposes. The samples were reportedly given to Berlin's Charite hospital in order to be studied.
A mass was celebrated for the community and family members had the opportunity to pay their final respects.
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Gefallenen Soldatendenkmal Bundeswehr Potsdam Wald der Erinnerung
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Guillotine in the basement of German Reichstag
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'Water and Fire' is a historic documentary film about the turbulent and famous history of Marinus van der Lubbe, the Dutch bricklayer and communist who was arrested in 1933 for setting the German Reichstag on fire during the rise of Hitler. Water and Fire tells the amazing life story of Marinus van der Lubbe, a story in which heroism, reality, fiction, truth and lies seem to intertwine. The Reichstag fire was a pivotal event in the establishment of Nazi Germany.
Berlin-Plotzensee
Plotzensee ist eine Ortslage im Berliner Ortsteil Charlottenburg-Nord (Bezirk Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf)