Original subtitles

In 1941, the

Soviet spy network of the big boss

Leo Volltreffer alias Oz Silber extends across

all of Western Europe.

From his desk in the

import export company Cemex in Paris,

he directs his extensive

organization. His main base in

Brussels is still fully intact in the fall of 1941

in October In 1941, the head

of the Belgian network, also known as Petit

Chef, received the order from headquarters

to go to Berlin immediately to

check on the spy organization there. The

most important heads of this Berlin

organization were the first lieutenant in the

Reich Aviation Ministry, Harro Schulze

Boysen, the government councilor in the Reich

Ministry of Economics doctoral thesis day

of mathematics student house part man who

was infiltrated by Schulze Boysen into the cipher department of the Wehrmacht's news connection and the

writer Adam Kuckhoff.

Since June 22, 1941, this

espionage group, which came together shortly before the

outbreak of the war,

has been broadcasting regularly with three radios To

Moscow, the devices were handed over to Harnack and

Kuckuck shortly before the outbreak of the

German-Soviet conflict by the

Soviet agent Aleksandrov. The radio

operator of this group was

electrician Hans Coppi, who never

received sufficient Morse code training

and therefore often messes up the code and the radio traffic

plan for

this reason The headquarters thought it would be

appropriate to send them to Berlin for inspection, to

check the individual members and

to give new instructions. The Berlin network

worked smoothly again for some time

until the moment when

the radio operator Copy discovered that

the pillars of the radio defense were one His

three radio stations have come threateningly closer

and his discovery is

imminent. That's why

Schulze Boysen orders the temporary

cessation of radio traffic.

At the same time, the

investigators also approach the radio station of the BP

boss in Brussels on the night of December 13th to

14th, 1941 secret

field police to the radio amateurs alias

Alamo and some other employees of the

shop are arrested and

stairs narrowly avoid

arrests by fleeing to

France

while the Berlin network can resume its

regular radio communication with Moscow

some time later, the

rapper is waiting in Paris doubts about

a new order from the headquarters in February

1942 it finally arrives

the radio silence in Brussels is

activated again the new man at the key is

Johann Wenzel

but he too is soon targeted when he is

arrested in Brussels after his unsuccessful escape, the

counterintelligence captain finds People among Wenzel's

papers also deciphered the radio

message with the addresses of Schulze

Boysen Harnack and Kokos

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Since the outbreak of the German-Soviet

war, the Berlin

organization of the Red Orchestra has been working

at full speed, apart from a few interruptions,

at the beginning of July 1942 in the evening of

First Lieutenant Harro Schulze Boysen does

n't yet know what to expect. Everything is

still quiet. There is no evidence

that his organization's code

can be broken. Aro Schulze

Boysen also doesn't know that his name

and address are now known to the defense authorities as a

possible contact point for agents

People on the

Tirpitz bank are hesitant

to hand over the material to the Gestapo. Unbelievably

simple. Unbelievable. They say

how were they able to decode this radio message.

That wasn't even

necessary. Whether they had found it in plain text and had

already been decrypted among the

papers of Agent Wenzel at

19 Altenburger Allee in Brussels,

I hear the name not for the first time

how did you come up with it and in

different ways

you know who is behind it and

unfortunately we don't know that I

informed the admiral he instructed me to

let you know

what happened so there are

really still signs and Miracle Admiral

Canaris begins to work with the

Reich Security Main Office

that sounds too good to be true,

you could immediately become suspicious if

you didn't

mention the cigar on.

Excuse me, I

need

a list of all the residents of

Altenburger Allee 19

visitors, relatives and maids immediately so

on, of course, you hear the

matter is brandt urgent and top secret,

of course, thank you, in a few

hours we will know who is ko. we have

found that

a first lieutenant named

schulze-boysen lives in the house in question, mr. schulze boysen

us troops he is Speaker in the

Reich Aviation Ministry,

that's so interesting after all, do

n't you think

something has already been arranged by us?

You have a completely free hand. I'm really amazed.

I

couldn't stop being amazed at this

sudden generosity of the

military defense. I'm sorry, there

's something there behind that I

only have the order to tell you about the

radio message with the Berlin address in

monastery. So this is what the cooperation that is

always so talked about looks like

in reality, the old

cover-up tactics, the old rivalry as

ever. We are not going to put this shoe

on ourselves, Mr. Criminal Police Officer When did

the secret state police

inform us? But only when we do

n't muddle along, when she

brought us, that's not there and

the other way around, but please, neither of us

can do anything about it now anyway,

then I can't ask her

not to To continue to do this,

excuse me, but we also need to

know which leads have

been secured so far and which

we need to pursue further.

Can you at least tell me when your

captain people in Brussels

found the radio message about eight

days ago eight days ago,

when, where and how we did something Passing it on

is exclusively our business.

I wouldn't be so sure, Colonel,

if you wanted to keep us up to date with the further

results of your radio monitoring

and then

we can certainly be very grateful to you. Of

course, at the moment we are busy

deciphering the intercepted radio messages of course it will

take some time, there are at least around

500 when we are ready we will inform you,

may I ask for something in return if

you have nothing to grow up yet

please like me the admiral expressed the

assumption that the secret

state police would

carry out research on their own initiative

for some time now on this matter

but not on my dear, I should

know about it, so then

you can completely reassure Mr. Admiral Canaris as far as

Toro is concerned, the director of

the Wehrmacht High Command Department has

deciphered the new English naval code for attack In

Norway,

what's okay is the tube

is broken, is it that bad? You

still have two radios,

three were already too few,

hopefully one more will break, why

because they don't have any time for

me anymore

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from Director on the curve to activate

the base group and to improve the

transmission of intelligence, we will bring

reinforcements on the way to Berlin in the next few days

Erwin Parndorf alias der Bahnhof alias

Rudolf Schäfer former youth

functional captain

fled to the Soviet Union in 1933 Anton

Börner alias Bielski former radio operator

of the KPD in

1933 emigrated to the Soviet Union

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we are over 1 point calm get

ready at home

[applause]

yes

in May 1942 Russia is in a

desperate defensive battle

the leaders of the defeated Soviet

army must be listening to the radio messages from the red

band the signals of rescue sound

as they Becoming more and more sparse and then

almost completely absent,

Moscow decides to use this extreme distress to the

risky use of parachute agents

behind the German lines. For this

purpose, the Soviet secret service gathers

German communists who have emigrated to the

Soviet Union in training

camps and trains them to become

parachute agents house after completing

their training for you see them with

the wolf books of fallen German

soldiers with fake orders

and ration cards and send them

into action

[applause]

I can please

please

have you seen such travel stamps

from whom did you get them Those were the two

veal schnitzels earlier, two officers who

were sitting at the back of the window.

I asked for the papers

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his lieutenant's vacation or the

business trip from Weissach and of

course

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yes, thank you, okay,

did you see the eyes of the police officers

Since then there has been the iron cross and

the storm badge. Is it so

important

that somewhere we will accommodate the people

yes but lives because no one

can find a brother but who will

thank heaven and cellist also

place the young people of resistance

Schuco keep them their poster stickers

out of our work if they

are caught during an action we are

all on that is irresponsible

we have to make the resistance group

our base harnack

the comrades from Moscow are just in time to

take this into their own hands they can

travel cells around it

Workers and students organize schools, but

Zhukov, these are all

fantasies. There is a Gestapo inspector on every train.

In every city,

the police are waiting for illegal immigrants. The

comrades need proof of work

complete nonsense

in brussels that there was a bloodbath last week

from the iss has a rock

all the way we wanted one from the patient

that the whole street

had become dangerous 100 places why

are you there the boss gave her

documents that there were no dead spots at all

the point is

They only handed that over to the Gestapo, as

far as I know,

then you can be satisfied with the sayings, like

unfortunately not the guy burned the key

book beforehand, you can be sure that

the particularly good agents also take

novels that are only available in individual

copies what the

first ashes laid is a sentence

with the word tractor correction if you

know where the word occurs then

you can earn an arrangement

500 area we could define

what's great or are the roses

up to short but it doesn't matter that's

one piece down my collar size wo

n't fit you there he wears everything

behind the stove with precise what the

people say about it because his guests

walk around with their collars open the whole cas

nonsense harro I've never had an

officer ring the bell and certainly not

a knight's cross bearer maybe

they're standing Children from next door down in the hallway

because they want to look at you up close

and then the

knight's cross bearer appears in civilian clothes that do

n't fit above and don't talk about it,

he left it for me then I'll be

able to eat a decent meal, look

at it Every shop

girl notices that they are fake and

that's why they want to get out of here. This

bushel has been shopping with the mat and

had lunch from Insterburg to

Berlin and from Berlin-Mitte so far

out in the street around the

corner in the butcher shop it has 500

grams Meat stamps ca

n't really be helped better by the Gestapo. What are

these

trivial things? How many

counterfeit meat stamps do you think are in circulation

and who wants to prove after so many days

who gave which stamps?

Don't panic right away

Mood at the moment neither is you in a

panic mood I'm just drawing the

conclusion from this whole delegation

behavior he behaves telepathically

you too yes well you even if you're already like

that ask also your political

attitude is fine Bremer great

but how you do it that's that's

that It's conspiratorial dilettantism and

it's too dangerous for me. I don't want to

fail because of them. It's because of the

creation of an object for Germany. Well,

please, that's just what unity means

after the catastrophe that will come, only

one and in Germany, otherwise

we will inevitably be dismembered. You

don't even know how much we are of the same opinion

if you please explain to me we will talk

without much discussion why do you have plans in

full officer's uniform sticking up posters

handing out leaflets my god

what's bothering where that's never what I'm

here in Berlin in the middle of the war what's

really bothering you is your

theatrics the spiders Please,

I don't want to hide that.

Representatives of the party have officially joined your group.

They are afraid.

Yes, I'm afraid of losing my head because of such

senseless actions. Where have

they gone? Their miracle

specialists are they in

hiding? They suddenly disappeared

from the scene Those who risk their

necks and necks for our common cause

first have to

get an overview, get their bearings,

they will be there at the right time,

rely on it a game of

old fights, they wouldn't

give up now that it depends on each and every

one of us, I rely

I'm looking for them, use

fake ration cards,

wear officer's uniforms and identify

themselves with a holiday certificate and

books that have fallen out of the possession of

German soldiers.

Point in itself, the commissioner who

is Lieutenant Scheffel, the agent who appears,

is probably identical to the

communist youth functionary Erwin

parndorf

born in 1908

point

well how are you, thank you but keep it up

people like

you also in high spirits the old man

now has the first radio messages from the

agents in brussels froze as a child

were you given the name because of you of

course in vain

the greatest thing is that novel because they

used to encrypt the

secret of Professor Wollmann or

something like that it's about a French

murderer because the whole of Germany

will be blown up and did you also

like the key words

I won't be home before 11 a.m.

but what's going to happen last In the

end, how should we both please not

talk about it, don't talk it out, there are

no problems between the two of us, yes,

you say that every time because it's like that,

how are you going to finish it?

I'm a communist. Soviet

Russia is fighting for its existence

with Soviet Russia.

Marx's idea lives or falls the the of lines

the future of humanity

I believe in it unconditionally and I

have a mission

I have to deal with it just so that

you are my wife

I could rely on him more

than my wife

my mission is

not a mission yes

and don't forget

Any means that leads to success in

this situation is right,

even if you want

in a moral sense.

Yes,

try to find out when and where

exactly the wrong agents are being dropped,

but report carefully. I implore

you to be careful. I think he's been

around Lips a lot lately

Do

you think we are still safe

yes

508 is 13

13 13 is

90 and bold 93 93

nnn and establish and establish well

please can we use it 57 12 12 12 like

Wilhelm 3 and 7 is 10 10

why so please boys no

community but We have a

tremendous thing here, Mr. Lieutenant,

then sit down in your seats and

cultivate your individual

skills. You

know you should go to Berlin

and find out why

so incredible

8 and 6 14 14 14

69 is 15 15 15

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of course why

private cup of tea

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[music]

thank you

[music]

syria

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I will then miss class at the

end of September We're going back,

we have to in every respect,

maybe I'll visit you sometime,

or would that disturb the holiday idyll,

but I

certainly didn't mind, yes, come

to the Baltic Sea, it's not

that far and you certainly have a

car at your disposal,

sometimes I think

I'm sitting here with a

Berlin and Claudia English

lieutenant for two years while

the others today I got a letter

from a friend of the same year we

were at the war school together

now the lieutenant colonel Ritterkreuz is

back at the start he will have a huge

career

but I chat in English tolerably well and

the world will have to teach Germany after the war

and we will cost the world

a lot of sweat even though the German

language is still better than if the

world had to learn Russian. I imagine that would be a

terrible thing

These poor men that you then

send to Russia actually

learn Russian. No, they are almost all

defectors, prisoners of war who work for us,

former prisoners of war and they

jump out of the plane behind

the front at night

so unreal,

yes, sorry, but I ca

n't believe it at all. There isn't even

an important railway bridge

behind the Russian front line that has to be

blown up. The

entire supply rolls over it. It

will be blown up

by Arvid at the director on August 23rd, 2002 00

local time jumps in the context of this

in-between world and very whether German

sabotage group of 80 Russian unique

order to destroy railway bridge

Postino Grad then set up a

resistance cell in Moscow

[laughter]

10

message from hello you should work it up again tomorrow and

the day after tomorrow with Mrs. von Procter

and who brings the sense I

was finally sleeping for

months I've been hearing that two friends from

Moscow are supposed to take the work off my hands,

but that's what they're supposed to do. I know where

the words are, nice help,

he's looking for me to death and his 18 box

train station is killed out of the

question because he's calming down, I'll

do it tomorrow morning, that's enough or

good morning I'll be carried and I

just want to bring the books ya konan

73

I'll pick them up again next week

like it's looking for again

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I know, I know is the whole war

and the future of humanity depends on

it reminds this eternal sequence

of coro at the director

have been out of contact with the comrades who parachuted

over East Prussia in mid-may

for weeks and

are worried about their

disappearance

central office urgently wants to be

informed whether further contact with

both is desired and how it

can be established

hello hello you stop there come

here

stop

you stand still

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schmid

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have you injured yourself

our stairs are a bit slippery

you have to be very careful so that you don't

slips with you in this place

you want to talk today

if you don't talk then your

friends börner will talk we

already had them at the wrap

what did you do in berlin

i looked at the city berlin

rudow is particularly worth seeing no

longer

have 1000 gram meat stamps You

spent out there, thank you very much for the

tip,

who did you talk to?

You can handle the portion on your own,

Commissioner,

your behavior is pointless. Citizens, whether you get to know your

Berlin contacts today or tomorrow,

one day you'll have to

open them up and know that You exactly

Börner

you can last a week,

maybe two

but not three more.

They don't really know our instruments yet,

so I always make it clear to the people at the beginning

that the

tightening of the interrogations

offers unlimited possibilities.

Unfortunately, many people only see that much too

late

We don't want to be spared this.

Hold on tight to the banister.

Our cleaning ladies have freshly

polished. They are

now going on vacation. They ca

n't get out of their bourgeois nursery.

In a socialist

state, there might not be a vacation in the Don

area. The offensive is in

full swing They want to build ten locations out of it.

How do I get

the op to do it right if they're not there?

They're an intelligence supplier in the

high command. They're also on

vacation, best found in Moscow

That would be the most sensible thing to have

ears. We don't know how far the

five pillars have worked their way back to us

and the comrades from

the Soviet Union have disappeared without a trace.

They will

come back and then as soon as they

have completed their tasks and why are we not keeping in

touch To us,

why didn't anyone bring the radios hidden in East Prussia?

Why hasn't the man in this stupid

people's uniform been back for a long time?

Copy should let the head office score when it comes to points

from May to August

that's why they go to the Baltic Sea Harnack

they are afraid to go to Westend Altenburger

Allee 19 13 right turn Charlottenburg

sales of the road 26 years time

meeting left Wolf Riedl Kaiser 18 43

left was against it are your England

report in cold coffee what my

colleague says you to our success

one to zero for us

unbelievable what are they doing in the middle of

Berlin and sparks for the enemy these

pigs then something has happened

before such scumbags

actually exist the poor pigs

get their heads down and die and

these guys spy and

sabotage here in the middle of Berlin

you decoded it today a

good two weeks ago you were just fed up

yes can I speak to your Opel do

you know when he is coming back

and his wife

no thanks

yes here again Hallmann can I

please forget it now really not, yes,

thanks,

yes, because I can now get your Oberland,

thanks

to Schulze Boysen,

no, still not,

no idea,

definitely a very specific home

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yes, it's no longer there at 6 p.m. when

work ends. I'm speaking then,

please,

write in mine with i

and y y is quite right

yes you could at

the moment hello

you are right

no it was our turn and already half idiot

lives

from 11

has its okay

parkour gallen 19 three flights of stairs to the right

schulze willich schulze wolfgang

schulze and schulze boysen harro

moment yes yes please

single Mrs. Mr. Heil man,

I think the gentleman who

called all the time last night, you're sorry, he'll

call back soon.

Yes, please,

what a surprise, Mr. Heilmann,

thank you very much for

the trip

But with me he called his office

on Thursday

around 11 a.m. right after he

got home but you were already

gone, they told him who

said that someone I don't know exactly how

something like that is going on,

what please say

have decrypted the radio message to child,

which also contains addresses,

but you can't prove anything to us,

please contact us, you can

only get as far as pop, you have to

call immediately, but that's far too

dangerous, it's a risk, we

have to

connect when, please you take me to

first lieutenant schulze boysen

his wife

I have please

please can I speak to my husband

Hanover people a schulze-boysen

please

business trip

I don't know anything about it for

how long because

please who am I talking to

thank you thank you we have yes no no no

I'm not worried only

yes yes

goodbye

yes please I would like to die

cards for my fallen one pressure

come to

the local police we are ready

please are you the actress

Rebecca Hall please what do you want to

fulfill so late the police do

n't do anything stupid Go open it

immediately,

they're out of buckets,

they're under arrest,

excuse me, they're the

senior government councilor,

I'm your wife,

please come with a state police officer,

let me ask stupid questions,

my great-uncle was there, he gave me tips, he

was probably my best man, it

's absurd that in our family

someone thinks espionage we think

German they have access to secret

classified information was not there and every

officer in a higher rank I am

that should be known to him in the

Reich Aviation Ministry yes of course

from director to child

go immediately to the three

addresses given Berlin and

find out why radio connection

constantly fails

work of the Berlin group is of utmost

importance addresses new west end

Altenburger Allee 19 three stairs on the right

Coro

Charlottenburg Friedrich Strasse 26a 23 on

the left Wolf

Friedenau

Kaiser 18 four stairs on the left Bauer

remind you here of Eulenspiegel

this radio message was sent by the Moscow people

headquarters to the Brussels chief agent

knows in

October on October 10, 1941 exactly

what do you say about that

nothing at all what should I say about that

my name is not Bauer

I don't know at all what you want from me

you are a writer Mr. Dr. you

have written a drama that

Eulenspiegel means and you live at

kaiserallee 18 there is

actually nothing left to deny or

someone has misused my address the

commissioner but doctor cook on with

your intelligence you should

have come up with something better do

you know this gentleman no

then not

no

but maybe

no please what do you want

what do you want please

but you will surely know

him you have to know him he visited her and

her husband in October

on October 19th to be exact

I have never seen this man before

I can't calm him down

maybe you could calm down We're

trying to

clear up this ominous radio message together, I mean in a very comradely way,

I'm not a criminal but an

intelligent man

there or a doctor of philosophy in

jurisprudence

senior government councilor in the

Ministry of Economics and

as early as 1932 they went to Moscow

if that wasn't intelligent

as a politically thinking German

I use it for my task of

getting to know the Soviet system, yes of course I do

n't blame myself for it at all.

On the contrary, hence the numerous

Marxist writings that we found in your

bookcase. That's

all literature that we

study purely theoretically, of course that's

clear

I was also in America I

studied medicine at the university for two and a half years. Your

dissertation topic was the pre-

Marxist workers movement in the

United States. In

1930 you completed your economics

studies at the University of Gießen

and then you founded

the working group in Berlin to

study the Soviet planned economy

I have been a party member since 1937 yes

we know that

in the NSDAP its the eighth of July 1937 to be

precise I can also tell you your

membership number

4 million 153 1569

you are very well informed

you must know him he was here in

Berlin She and her husband

met him. No, for the thousandth

time, I don't know Ms. Hana. You are

also an above-average

intelligent woman.

You know, but denying everything does

n't help. We have enough evidence in

our hands.

If you're smart and can help me, then

I can Help you

I don't know what you want from me

then I will prove to him how

hopeless your situation is Miss

Breiter please

he no longer understands the world

he doesn't understand how he, a convinced

National Socialist,

could become an informant for an enemy espionage organization a

young person without He

slipped into this affair with bad intentions, he

just wanted to convert her husband, the

supposed skeptic, to believe in

the German and

the feelings he

had towards you,

why did you do that?

I had to obey my husband,

Mrs. Harnacke,

if you can talk We'll save his head,

the inspector will come straight away, she should

expect to produce news, yes, it's fine,

sit down in front of Schulze Boysen,

yes,

thank you, Ms. Lang, my name is Guard,

please it wo

n't be that bad, I

don't know, I don't know anything

else

a bit refreshing

they are very loves roles wider

I thought there was only shouting and

beatings here are only liable to

fairy tales

how does a woman like her get here I

was enlisted in the war

otherwise I would have known about him the armaments factory

you don't have to agree with everything

That's what happened here,

you would do something for me, miss,

but I would like to do anything if we

had met outside, but here

I don't think that's possible, Ms. Schulze

Boysen, please, please,

my good gran boss, he should

still be in Paris. He had to work with a

company like Cemex or The high mix knows what to do,

on the other hand, is submerged,

submerged, where in the mass, the latest

reports speak of the mass, she was yes,

tell me, how are you supposed to

get out of it from the unoccupied zone,

don't worry about it. I

found out the message comes from At the

top, a special red band squad

is set up, mixed from the defense of

the Wehrmacht and the defense of the

Reich Security Main Office. Yes, why does

the Wehrmacht have to get involved, we ca

n't do it alone, always calmly

blood, my dear Hans calmly blood, that

also depends on you can

take poison, so I have them so much

trust I immediately had trust in

you please help me

I'm not asking for anything bad and

believe me I will

thank you a thousand times over

a few of our friends don't know yet

that we are under arrest if you

would let them know I can

Don't give the address I do

n't know but please 1

warn Hans Coppi

read tomorrow

how are the stocks today how is

my husband doing

badly

unfortunately

yesterday he still thinks he does

n't have to open his mouth today it's so

done that he can't even do it anymore Stop

talking,

excuse your comment, can I

disappear for three minutes or

should I use shorthand,

thank you

so

my dear,

when your husband blames everything, it's

unbelievable, especially

his own wife,

say what kind of thing is that?

Make a report the

criminal what do you have to

report

and tell a man called Copy Hans Coppi

what do you have to do

if you want to stroll casually

then I'll give you my stocker

but the following to carry them

now please don't get so worked up

what's going on I just

found out from Berta Schulze-Boysen that I

should warn a man named Hans Coppi Hans

Coppi

Hans Coppi was arrested and after him

many of his like-minded people and

friends step by step the

Gestapo wanted to train the entire

resistance organization on the brutal

severity of the In the long run, only a few were able to cope with interrogations and the

psychological pressure.

Only a few

remained steadfast and remained silent.

In the end, not a single person from the large

circle of informants and opinion of

First Lieutenant Aro Schulze Boysen came to the

arrest, not even those who did

n't even know that they were working for a foreign

power were active and who

wanted nothing to do with espionage, who only met in

discussion circles with Schulze Boysen

or who distributed illegal leaflets with him.

They were all

brought to justice as high-ranking traitors and

mercilessly accused by a fanatical inquisitor by Colonel

War Judge Doctor Manfred Röder

Adolf Hitler demanded the harshest

punishments and ruthless destruction of

the enemies of the state. That's why the

verdict in almost all cases was death by

hanging

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in the Plötzensee penitentiary

most of them were executed at the end of 1942 and in the course of 1943.

Doctor Arvid Harnack

Doctor Milred Harnack

Horst heilmann

doctor adam kuckhoff

libertas schulze-boysen

hans coppi

wilhelm guth on

countess erika von brockdorff

lieutenant herbert gollnow a

total of 46 death sentences of

those mainly involved only greta

kuckhoff survived she was later pardoned to five years

in prison

as one of the first to start on

december 22nd 1942 harro Schulze Boysen

died by hanging

the destruction of his organization

could not keep him in the belief that he had fought for a

just cause and for a better

Germany.

Shortly before his death he wrote the

final arguments are not strand and case

and our judges today are

not yet the world judgment

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give against it

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