Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Nazi Germany

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Plötzensee Prison in Berlin was a notorious Nazi-era detention and execution facility used primarily for political prisoners and members of the German resistance.

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Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Nazi Germany canonical 2

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instanceOf execution site
prison
country Nazi Germany
currentUse correctional facility
youth detention facility
executionMethods beheading by guillotine
hanging
hasMemorial Plötzensee Memorial
linked to: Plötzensee Prison
heritageStatus memorial site of German resistance
site of remembrance
inUseAsExecutionSiteFrom 1933
inUseAsExecutionSiteUntil 1945
locatedIn Berlin
Berlin, Germany
linked to: Berlin

Berlin-Charlottenburg
linked to: Charlottenburg

Charlottenburg-Nord
locatedNear Berlin-Spandau Ship Canal
Plötzensee lake
memorialEstablished 1952
memorialPurpose commemoration of victims of Nazi justice
namedAfter Plötzensee
notableEvent Plötzensee executions of 1943
mass executions after the 20 July 1944 plot
notablePrisonerExecuted Adam von Trott zu Solz
Alfred Delp
Czesław Jóźwiak
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Erwin Planck
Hans von Dohnanyi
Helmuth James von Moltke
Julius Leber
Ludwik Wrodarczyk
Peter Yorck von Wartenburg
Ulrich von Hassell
members of the Red Orchestra resistance group
members of the White Rose resistance group
numberOfPeopleExecuted about 3000
more than 2800
operatedBy Nazi judicial authorities
Prussian Ministry of Justice
ownedBy State of Berlin
partOf Nazi judicial system
Nazi system of political repression
startDate 1868
usedFor detention of political prisoners
detention of resistance members
execution of German resistance members
execution of conscientious objectors
execution of death sentences
execution of foreign forced laborers
execution of people convicted by Nazi People’s Court
execution of prisoners of war

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Arthur Nebe deathPlace Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Nazi Germany
Musa Jalil deathPlace Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Nazi Germany