FIR: 80 years ago: Members of the “Red Orchestra” executed in Plötzensee
Shortly before Christmas, on December 22, 1942, eleven men and women from the German anti-fascist resistance were executed for high treason at the Plötzensee execution site in Berlin, including Harro Schulze-Boysen and his wife Libertas, as well as Arvid Harnack. The Gestapo saw in them the leading figures of an international anti-fascist network, which they …
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