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What are they known for
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Name
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Date of death
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Fate
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Rank/role
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Baltic German colonel in the (OKW) provided the detonator charge and explosives for the assassination attempt
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Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven
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26 July 1944
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Suicide
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Colonel
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organised the use of cars and airplanes as well as the protection of the co-conspirators, his house in Rangsdorf often served as the meeting place for the conspirators
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Georg Hansen
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8 September 1944
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Executed (Hanging)
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Scheduled as the plotter's liaison officer in Vienna
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Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz
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12 October 1944
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Referred to by modern historians as 'Hitler's favourite intelligence analyst, tasked with espionage on the Western Front, planted through Allied deception helped to save thousands of Allied lives by diverting Axis and Nazi forces
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Alexis von Roenne
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Became Chief of the Organization Department of the Armed Forces Command in 1943
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Joachim Meichssner
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29 September 1944
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Head of Staff of the 24th Army Corps at the Eastern Front, Chief of Staff at the Army's General Office in Berlin
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Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim
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21 July 1944
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Executed (Firing squad)
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Supposed to become the liaison officer for the military district of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
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Nikolaus von Üxküll-Gyllenband
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14 September 1944
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Executed (Hanging)
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Counterintelligence at the Foreign Affairs Office in Berlin
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Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg
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23/24 April 1945
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Murdered
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Colonel and journalist
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Austrian resistance fighter, responsible for the order that set Operation Valkyrie in motion
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Robert Bernardis
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8 August 1944
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Executed (Hanging)
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Lieutenant Colonel
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Tried to get his superior Zeitzler to participate in the plot, but to no avail
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Gunther Smend
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8 September 1944
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Assessed the chances of the coup attempt as "only ten percent", tried to draw Rommel into the plot
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Caersar von hofacker
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20 December 1944
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Responsible for the duplication and transmission of the "Valkyrie" orders in the Bendlerblock in Berlin
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Joachim Sadrozinski
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29 September 1944
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Put together a secret archive complete with reports and photographs of SS atrocities in Poland
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Werner Schrader
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28 July 1944
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Suicide
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Liaison officer in the Wehrkreis XX
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Hasso von Boehmer
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5 March 1945
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Executed (Hanging)
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Informed in time to turn his unexplained cavalry retreat around and return to the front before suspicions could be aroused his involvement the operation went undetected, and he was not executed, unlike the majority of the conspirators.
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Philipp von Boeselager
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1 May 2008
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Survived
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Member of the Kriegsmarine he served on the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, worked in the Operations Department of the 1st Sea War Branch of the Naval High Command as liaison officer to the Foreign Ministry
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Alfred Kranzfelder
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10 August 1944
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Executed (Hanging)
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Lieutenant Commander
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Led his battalion to the gates of Kiev, task to control the messages which were to mobilize Operation Valkyrie in favour of the coup. As his name was at the top of the duty roster, he was the first to be identified as a conspirator
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Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal
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13 October 1944
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Major
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Commander of Officer-Candidate Training Detachment 24 based at Insterburg, East Prussia
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Roland von Hoblin
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Took on the foreseen logistical connections between City Commandant and Police President
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Egbert Hayessen
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15 August 1944
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Sentenced to death for keeping his knowledge of the plot to himself
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Hans Georg Klamroth
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26 August 1944
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Supposed to become a liaison officer in military district VII, he was a descendant of a noble family
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Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod
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Served in Army Group Centre under one of the main leaders of the plot, was the liaison officer to the commander of the defense group III, and passed on the first Valkyrie orders
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Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen
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21 July 1944
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Suicide
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In view of the crimes he witnessed involuntarily, there were only three ways for an officer to protect his honor "by joining the group of victims"
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Axel von dem Bussche
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26 January 1993
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Survived
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Unsuccessful to commit suicide and was imprisoned in a concentration camp and tried for treason, The camp was liberated on April 22, 1945, a day before he was expected to be sentenced to death and executed
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Carl-Hans von Hardenberg
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October 24, 1958
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Succeeded in rounding up nearly all Nazi officials in Vienna he was able to convince the Gestapo that he was only following orders and thus he escaped punishment
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Carl Szokoll
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25 August 2004
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He was the military attaché in Ankara, Turkey. In 1944, he was on the staff of the 363rd Volksgrenadier Division.
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Rolf Friedeman Pauls
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4 May 2002
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Appointed him to the Abwehr office at the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht in Berlin
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Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld
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8 September 1944
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Executed (Hanging)
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Brought together a small group of Bavarian monarchists such as ministers and bankers and businessmen, he organized himself with the resistance groups in Switzerland and in Bavaria
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Franz Sperr
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23 January 1945
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Became a consultant on the staff of the General Army Office (AHA)
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Busso Thoma
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Belonged to the Potsdam Infantry Regiment 9 only one to escape the firefight at the Bendlerblock
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Friedrich Klausing
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8 August 1944
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Captain
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Captain in Germany's reserve forces, working in the Wehrmacht section of the Amt Ausland/Abwehr
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Theodor Strunck
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9 April 1945
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was by the Gestapo in march of 44 but was able to flee and disappeared was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp
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Ludwig Gehre
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Rushed to Berlin and, not knowing that Hitler had survived the explosion, attempted to launch the coup, him an 3 others were shot after midnight by a ten-man firing squad
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Werner von Haeften
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21 July 1944
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Executed (Firing squad)
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Lieutenant
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He was in the group that was to stage the coup in Berlin, he managed to cover up his resistance activities, and proceedings against him were dropped in December 1944 for lack of evidence
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Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin
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8 March 2013
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Survived
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Went to the Bendlerstraße, which the coup leaders intended to use as the centre of their operations in Berlin, arrested at Bendlerstraße the same night
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Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
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10 August 1944
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Executed (Hanging)
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Judge
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he had contacts with the church resistance, he had many contacts in the military resistance, he was connected to the social-democratic resistance
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Klaus Bonhoeffer
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23 April 1945
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Executed (Shot)
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Lawyer
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made records for himself of the régime's crimes, altogether, 13 people were able to leave Germany without hindrance, thanks to forgeries and operation known as U-7,
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Hans von Dohnanyi
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8 or 9 April 1945
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Executed (Hanging)
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Agreed to stand ready in Baden to take a leading role in Germany's reconstruction
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Reinhold Frank
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23 January 1945
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Stood ready to take power at the Foreign Ministry for the plotters His brother had been summarily shot in the early hours of 21 July at the Bendlerblock along with 3 others
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Hans Bernd von Haeften
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15 August 1944
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He was responsible for the courier service between military posts in Berlin and the so-called Führerhauptquartier "Wolfsschanze" and arranged for the explosive that was to be used in the attempt on Hitler's life
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Albrecht von Hagen
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8 August 1944
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Was arrested on 26 February 1942 by the Gestapo and suffered torture through a number of prisons and concentration camps but did not reveal any of his fellow conspirators
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Nikolaus von Halem
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9 October 1944
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Arrested in August 1944 on plotting charges, and was severely mistreated in jail
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Hans John
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23 April 1945
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Executed (Firing squad)
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Worked as a lawyer at the Deutsche Lufthansa legal office in Madrid and used contacts he had made with British intelligence to escape to England and avoid certain execution
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Otto John
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26 March 1997
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Survived
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was not directly informed of the 20 July Plot, his knowledge of the plot to assassinate Hitler as well as his close ties to the resistance group forced him to go into hiding for the remainder of World War II
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Jakob Kaiser
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7 May 1961
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Was slated to become the presiding judge of the Reichsgericht
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Hans Knoch
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24 April 1945
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Extrajudicially shot
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He was aware that Himmler was interested in the idea of negotiating peace behind Adolf Hitler's bac. He suggested a coup d'état as the war was lost, but Himmler was not interested
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Carl Langbehn
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12 October 1944
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Executed (Hanging)
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Convincing Roland Freisler that he was suffering from memory loss. Avoiding conviction he was committed to a sanatorium and survived the war
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Ewald Loeser
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23 December 1970
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Survived
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organized resistance among former labor unionists, he was charged at the Volksgerichtshof for his involvement in the resistance movement
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Hermann Maab
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20 October 1944
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Executed (Hanging)
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Lawyer
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built up the biggest KPD resistance group, called the "Operative Leadership of the KPD", called on people to commit sabotage
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Anton Saefkow
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8 September 1944
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Executed (Guillotine)
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was sentenced to death by the Roland Freisler, who was killed in a US air raid the very next day, was to be responsible for the reorganization of air travel after the plot to assassinate the Führer
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Rudiger Schleicher
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23 April 1945
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Executed (Hanging)
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He delivered information from the conspirators in Berlin to Hans Bernd Gisevius in Zürich who was in contact with Allen Dulles, the Swiss director of the Office of Strategic Services
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Theodor Strunck
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9 April 1945
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Brought the trade unionists and the Social Democrats, the church circles and the old noble élites in
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Josef Wirmer
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8 September 1944
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He initiated and led the discussions of the Kreisau Circle, which met very often at his home, he remained in the innermost circle of the conspirators until the very end
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Peter Yorck von Wartenburg
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8 August 1944
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He agreed to be ready to take over the position of Ober-Präsident of Silesia in the democratic new beginning which the lotters hoped would follow a successful revolution
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Franz Leuninger
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1 March 1945
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Trade unionist
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He was earmarked to be the Reconstruction Minister
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Bernhard Letterhaus
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14 November 1944
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He was on the board of directors of the Leipziger Kammgarnspinnerei Stöhr & Co. AG
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Walter Cramer
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Businessman
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Worked for the Organisation Todt as an architect, family shelter one of the plotters
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Erich Gloeden
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30 November 1944
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Executed (Guillotine)
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Architect
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Family shelter one of the plotters
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Elizabeth Gloeden
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Teacher
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Was being monitored at the time on 12 August 1944 he was arrested sometime towards noon in connection with the failed plot
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Nikolaus Gross
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23 January 1945
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Executed (Hanging)
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Journalist
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Administered the property of the former royal house of Schaumburg-Lippe, battalion leader and commander of a subsidiary regiment of Infantry Regiment 9 Potsdam, threw himself out of a third-floor window of the Gestapo’s "house prison"
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Kurt von Plettenberg
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10 March 1945
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Suicide
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Landowner
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Farmer and agricultural contractor
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Carl Wentzel
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20 December 1944
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Executed (Hanging)
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First lieutenant in the reserves, Lehndorff was deployed as liaison officer to Defence District I
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Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort
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4 September 1944
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Was the secretary in the Bendlerblock headquarters of the Defense Ministry
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Margarethe von Oven
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5 February 1991
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Survived
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Secretary
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Was at his assigned place at the Bendlerblock in Berlin to support the attempted assassination and coup d'état, Roland Freisler gave a unusually lenient sentence of 7 years of labor
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Eugen Gerstenmaier
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13 March 1986
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Theologian
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Key founding member of the Confessing Church, accused of being associated with the 20 July plot
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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9 April 1945
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Executed (Hanging)
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Secretly helped Jews who were escaping to Switzerland through the underground
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Alfred Delp
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2 February 1945
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Priest
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Was a carrier of secret dispatches, captured by the British Army following the Battle of Monte Cassino, Pope Pius XII saved him from execution from the french
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Gereon Goldmann
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26 July 2003
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Survived
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Interrogated and temporarily taken into custody on 6 September 1943 under charges of comparing Hitler and Göring with the two criminals crucified alongside Jesus Christ, he was temporarily released, local Nazi officials re-arrested him on 15 May 1944
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Joseph Muller
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11 September 1944
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Executed (Guillotine)
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sentenced to death on 14 September 1944 for his knowledge of the plot
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Hermann Josef Wehrle
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14 September 1944
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Executed (Hanging)
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