1943: Thirteen Red Orchestra members
May 13th, 2018 Headsman
Thirteen anti-fascist resistance members of the “Red Orchestra” ring(s) were efficiently beheaded by the Plötzensee Prison fallbeil on this date in 1943.
Let no one say that I wept and trembled and clung to life. I want to end my life laughing, laughing the way I loved and still love life.
They were:
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Karl Behrens
Erika Gräfin von Brockdorff (nee Erika Schönfeldt)
Wilhelm Guddorf
Helmut Himpel
Walter Husemann
Walter Küchenmeister
Friedrich Rehmer
John Rittmeister*
Philipp Schaeffer
Heinz Strelow
Fritz Thiel
German Wikipedia’s list of executions in the Reich has only the above 11 listed for this day; via … @KrasnojKapelle on Twitter and this Bundesarchiv page, the others were
* A psychoanalyst, Rittmeister contributed through his correspondence the whimsical/ominous title of a volume about the history of his field — “Here Life Goes on in a Most Peculiar Way”: Psychoanalysis before and after 1933.
On this day..
- 1826: Francis Irvin, the first hanging in Ohio County, Kentucky - 2020
- 1948: Johannes Rasmussen, Danish Resistance betrayer - 2019
- 1920: Rickey Harrison, Hudson Duster - 2017
- 1619: Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, laandsadvocaat - 2016
- 1803: Peter Stout - 2015
- 1559: The remains of David Joris, Anabaptist fugitive - 2014
- 1945: Bruno Dorfer and Rainer Beck, Wehrmacht deserters - 2013
- 1828: Carbonari in Ravenna - 2012
- 2005: Shanmugam Murugesu, for the chronic - 2011
- 2005: Michael Ross, the Roadside Strangler - 2010
- 1880: Edwin Hoyt, in Bridgeport - 2009
- 1881: Not Billy the Kid - 2008
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Beheaded,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Espionage,Execution,Germany,Guillotine,History,Mass Executions,Spies,Wartime Executions,Women
Tags: 1940s, 1943, anti-fascists, communists, erhard thomfor, erika von brockdorff, fascism, friedrich rehmer, fritz thiel, heinz strelow, helmut himpel, john rittmeister, may 13, naziism, philipp schaeffer, Plotzensee Prison, red orchestra, richard weissensteiner, walter husemann, walter kuechenmeister, wilhelm guddorf, world war ii
