Ploetzensee: Site of Victims, Site of
Culprits
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execution room, with hanging hooks; photo:
Klaus Lehnartz |
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cell corridors in Haus III, before 1940;
photo: Landesbildstelle, Berlin |
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execution building, 1965; photo: Landesbildstelle,
Berlin |
Commemoration Entails Questions
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main entrance to Ploetzensee Prison;
photo: Landesbildstelle, Berlin |
Ploetzensee Prison: A Short History
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plan of the Ploetzensee Prison grounds,
about 1935 (the execution building is to the right of "Gef.
III"); document: Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin |
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aerial view of Ploetzensee Prison’s
Haus III, before 1945; photo: Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin |
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the dedication of the monument “To
the Victims of Hitler’s Dictatorship during the Years
1933-1945”
in September 1952; both photos: Landesbildstelle, Berlin |
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execution building, with the remains
of Haus III in the background, about 1950;
photo: Landesbildstelle, Berlin |
Criminal “Justice” under National
Socialism
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corridor with prison cells (left); photo:
Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin
the guillotine (right), after Soviet troops
liberated the prison in May 1945; photo: Landesbildstelle, Berlin |
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Executions at Ploetzensee Prison
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prison chapel in the background, with
the execution building to the left and the remains of
Haus III on the right, sometime after 1945; photo: Deutscher
Widerstand, Berlin |
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the remains of Haus III, the "House of
the Dead", about 1950; photo: Landesbildstelle, Berlin |
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Peter Buchholz (left) and Harald Poelchau;
photos: Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin
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Individuals Who Resisted National Socialism
Communists, Socialists and Social Democrats
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Richard Huettig (left) and Liselotte Hermann;
photos: Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin
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Youth Groups
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announcement of Hanno Guenther’s
execution; document: Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin |
The Ruetti Group
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opening of the “Soviet Paradise”
exhibit in Berlin’s Lustgarten, 8 May 1942; photo: Deutscher
Widerstand, Berlin |
The Baum Group
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Harro and Libertas (nee Haas-Heye) Schulze-Boysen
(left), and Clara, Mildred and Arvid Harnack, 1931; photos:
Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin
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The Harnack/Schulze-Boysen Resistance Circle
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Rudolf Wobbe, Helmuth Huebener
and Karl-Heinz Schnibbe (left to right) in Hamburg, about 1941,
in the left photo; Karlrobert Kreiten in the center photo, and
Elisabeth von Thadden;
photos: Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin |
Resistance in Everyday Life
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the execution site, 1955; photo: Landesbildstelle,
Berlin |
In Remembrance
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Related Documents:
Execution as an Administrative Procedure
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document: Bundesarchiv |
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document: Bundesarchiv |
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document: Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin |
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document: private collection |
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Ploetzensee Memorial
Center
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