page_title: Plötzensee Prison
section_title: Executed prisoners
hierarchical_section_title: Plötzensee Prison / Executed prisoners
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Volksgerichtshof, Ulrich von Hassell Prozeß 20. Juli 1944 [v. Hassell, Ulrich; im Hintergrund: Wirmer, Joseph (ganz rechts) sitzend neben Hassell: Offizialverteidiger Weimann] Abgebildete Personen: Hassell, Ulrich von: Botschafter in Italien, Prozess 20. Juli 1944, Deutschland (GND 118708988) Wirmer, Josef: Prozeß 20. Juli 1944, Deutschland (GND 11881818X) Français&#160;: Ulrich von Hassell, diplomate allemand et Josef Wirmer, un résistant au Troisième Reich. Complot du 20 juillet 1944
context_page_description: Plötzensee Prison is a men's prison in the Charlottenburg-Nord locality of Berlin with a capacity for 577 prisoners, operated by the State of Berlin judicial administration. The detention centre established in 1868 has a long history; it became notorious during the Nazi era as one of the main sites of capital punishment, where about 3,000 inmates were executed. Famous inmates include East Germany's last communist leader Egon Krenz.
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  Rita Arnould
  Marianne Baum
  Cato Bontjes van Beek
  Liane Berkowitz
  Robert Bernardis
  Heinz Birnbaum
  Eugen Bolz
  Eva-Maria Buch
  Musa Cälil
  Hans Coppi
  Hilde Coppi
  Alfred Delp
  Benita von Falkenhayn
  Erich Fellgiebel
  Eberhard Finckh
  Julius Fučík
  Jakob Gapp
  Erich and Elizabeth Gloeden, and Elisabeth Kuznitzky
  Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
  Fritz Hermann Goerdeler
  John Graudenz
  Nikolaus Gross
  Hanno Günther
  Hans Bernd von Haeften
  Albrecht von Hagen
  Otto and Elise Hampel, the inspiration for Hans Fallada's 1947 protest novel, Every Man Dies Alone
  Georg Hansen
  Arvid Harnack
  Mildred Harnack
  Paul von Hase
  Ulrich von Hassell
  Theodor Haubach
  Egbert Hayessen
  Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf
  Albert Hensel
  Liselotte Herrmann
  Helmut Hirsch
  Erich Hoepner
  Caesar von Hofacker
  Helmuth Hübener (youngest victim, only 17 years old)
  Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin
  Hilde Jadamowitz
  Friedrich Gustav Jaeger
  Heinz Joachim
  Marianne Joachim
  Walter Küchenmeister
  Otto Kiep
  Johanna Kirchner
  Nikolaus Christoph von Halem
  Hans Georg Klamroth
  Friedrich Klausing
  Sala Kochmann
  Theodor Korselt
  Alfred Kranzfelder
  Karlrobert Kreiten
  Adam Kuckhoff
  Carl Langbehn
  Julius Leber
  Wilhelm Leuschner
  Hans Otfried von Linstow
  Hilde Loewy
  Hans-Georg Mannaberg
  Gerd Meyer
  Hanni Meyer
  Herbert Michaelis
  Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
  Ernst Munzinger
  Renate von Natzmer
  Benno Neuburger
  Arthur Nebe
  Helmut Neumann
  Vera Obolensky
  Paul Ogorzow
  Erwin Planck
  Johannes Popitz
  Rudolf Redlinghofer
  Adolf Reichwein
  Heinz Rotholz
  Siegbert Rotholz
  Lothar Salinger
  Rudolf von Scheliha
  Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg
  Harro Schulze-Boysen
  Libertas Schulze-Boysen
  Elisabeth Schumacher
  Kurt Schumacher
  Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld
  Robert Stamm
  Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (brother of Claus von Stauffenberg, leader of Operation Valkyrie)
  Werner Steinbrinck
  Helmuth Stieff
  Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
  Maria Terwiel
  Elisabeth von Thadden
  Fritz Thiele
  Ernst Volkmann
  Adam von Trott zu Solz
  Peter Yorck von Wartenburg
  Josef Wirmer
  Erwin von Witzleben
  Gerhard Steinacher
  Walter Neugebauer
  Emmy Zehden
caption: Ulrich von Hassell in front of the Nazi Volksgerichtshof, which condemned him to death in September 1944. Josef Wirmer is at the far right in the photo.
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