Executions at Plotzensee Prison

During the period 1933 to 1945 the Nazis executed over 2,500 political prisoners at Plotzensee Prison in Berlin.

Helmuth Hubener – youngest person executed – he was 17. 

Otto Carl Kiep was the Chief of the Reich Press Office (Reichspresseamts). He became involved with the resistance against the Nazis and was executed in 1944.

Johanna Kirchner helped the Resistance movement against fascism and Hitler.  She was sent to Plotzensee and executed in 1944.

Abdullah Alis was a Russian member of the Red Army.  Taken prisoner by the Wehrmacht in 1941 and beheaded by guillotine.  He had joined an underground resistance while in prison.

Rudolf von Scheliha was a German diplomat who tried to help his Polish and Jewish friends during WWII.  He also attempted to make the world aware of the impending systematic murder of the Jewish people. Suspected by the Gestapo for his critical attitude, he was charged with being a member of the Red Orchestra, sentenced to death by hanging.  He was executed in 1942.

Mildred Fish-Harnack was an American-German literary historian, translator, and German Resistance fighter in Nazi Germany.  She was born in America but moved with her husband to Germany to study.  She was a member of the Red Orchestra resistance movement.  She was the only American woman executed on the orders of Adolf Hitler. She was beheaded in 1943.

Ulrich-Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld was a German landowner, officer, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime.  He was executed in 1944.

Adam Kuckhoff was a German writer, journalist, and German resistance fighter against the Third Reich.  He was executed in 1942.

Hans Coppi was a German Red Orchestra resistance fighter against the Third Reich.  He was executed in 1942.  His wife was executed a little over a year later.