Martin Antonenko
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Death of a blood judge!
On February 3, 1945, the 8th US Air Force flies a so-called "1000-day bomber attack" on Berlin - it is the second most severe attack on the Reich capital.
Large parts of the historic city center in Berlin-Mitte and in Kreuzberg are devastated...:
Several thousand people die - temporarily laid out in a "corpse collection point"...:
Here the Reichstag building before and after the attack...:
The building on Bellevuestrasse, in which the so-called "People's Court" is located, the highest court in the Nazi state for political criminal matters, was also hit hard.
On the way to the air-raid shelter beneath the building, the "President" of the People's Court, Roland Freisler, was also caught...
...who, as a drooling agitator, had sentenced all those involved in the failed assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944 to death a few months earlier...
... and had them hung up with wire nooses on meat hooks and strangled to death in the Plötzensee execution site...:
Scary detail on the edge:
When Freisler's body was found after the end of the attack, a doctor who happened to be passing by on the street was called in. The doctor could only determine the death of the blood judge, who had been hit by shrapnel.
The doctor summoned was the brother of the lawyer and resistance fighter Rüdiger Schleicher...
...whom Freisler had sentenced to death the day before (and who will be shot in April 1945).
Freisler thus escaped certain execution by the Allies during the Nuremberg trials.
The murderer-judge, on whose personal account more than 2,600 death sentences go, is buried anonymously in the grave of his wife Marion Rusnegger and her parents at the forest cemetery in Berlin-Dahlem...:
After the severe devastation and the many deaths caused by the US bombers in Berlin and in view of the approaching Soviet troops (whose rape orgies in the German territories they occupied had long since got around), a bitterly cynical mood began among the Berlin women "joke" to make the rounds:
"Better a Russian on the stomach than an American on the head."
On February 3, 1945, the 8th US Air Force flies a so-called "1000-day bomber attack" on Berlin - it is the second most severe attack on the Reich capital.
Large parts of the historic city center in Berlin-Mitte and in Kreuzberg are devastated...:
Several thousand people die - temporarily laid out in a "corpse collection point"...:
Here the Reichstag building before and after the attack...:
The building on Bellevuestrasse, in which the so-called "People's Court" is located, the highest court in the Nazi state for political criminal matters, was also hit hard.
On the way to the air-raid shelter beneath the building, the "President" of the People's Court, Roland Freisler, was also caught...
...who, as a drooling agitator, had sentenced all those involved in the failed assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944 to death a few months earlier...
... and had them hung up with wire nooses on meat hooks and strangled to death in the Plötzensee execution site...:
Scary detail on the edge:
When Freisler's body was found after the end of the attack, a doctor who happened to be passing by on the street was called in. The doctor could only determine the death of the blood judge, who had been hit by shrapnel.
The doctor summoned was the brother of the lawyer and resistance fighter Rüdiger Schleicher...
...whom Freisler had sentenced to death the day before (and who will be shot in April 1945).
Freisler thus escaped certain execution by the Allies during the Nuremberg trials.
The murderer-judge, on whose personal account more than 2,600 death sentences go, is buried anonymously in the grave of his wife Marion Rusnegger and her parents at the forest cemetery in Berlin-Dahlem...:
After the severe devastation and the many deaths caused by the US bombers in Berlin and in view of the approaching Soviet troops (whose rape orgies in the German territories they occupied had long since got around), a bitterly cynical mood began among the Berlin women "joke" to make the rounds:
"Better a Russian on the stomach than an American on the head."
