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unusual facts about resistance fighter



Bernhard Bästlein

Despite the fact that the case was closed, Bästlein was sent to the concentration camp in Esterwegen and in 1936, to Sachsenhausen, where he met Robert Abshagen, Franz Jacob, Julius Leber, Harry Naujoks, Wilhelm Guddorf and Martin Weise.

Michel Suret-Canale

He is the son of the late Jean Suret-Canale (1921–2007), an extensively published author, French historian of Africa, political activist, and World War II resistance fighter and Georgette (Lamargot) Suret-Canale, a poet and journalist.

Operation Claw

In later years, a hypothesis that the Norwegian resistance fighter Kai Holst's sudden death in June 1945 was related to his involvement in the Operation Claw has been put forward by among others the historian Tore Pryser.


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40. Fallschirmjägerbataillon Willi Sänger

In 1969 the battalion was bestowed with the tradition-based name of "Willi Sänger" an anti-Nazi resistance fighter and workers' sports devotee.

Aboulker

José Aboulker (1920–2009), French resistance fighter and politician

Aleksey Fyodorov

Oleksiy Fedorov (1901–1989), Soviet resistance fighter in German-occupied Ukraine

Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance

He is joined by new parents Chief Tyrol and Specialist Cally, former Galactica crewman Jammer, and Caprica resistance fighter Jean Barolay.

Berlin Nöldnerplatz station

The station is located on the eponymous square named after the Communist and resistance fighter Erwin Nöldner, killed in 1944, who lived nearby.

Brandenburg-Görden Prison

Willi Sänger, Communist and Resistance fighter, executed on November 27, 1944

Catherine Stodolsky

She is remembered most for her work chronicling her family's tribulations in the Nazi period, most notably the resistance fighter and author Lisa Fittko and the painter Malva Schalek, both of whom have attained considerable fame.

Christian Gerlach

In one case, according to Orbach, Gerlach had falsely paraphrased the memoir of the resistance fighter Colonel Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, and in another case, quoted misleadingly from an SS document.

Claude Lanzmann

Lanzmann persuaded Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski to be a witness in Shoah by calling forth—once again—his historical responsibility.

Indies Monument

Its design was chosen in 1986 by the Mayor of Amsterdam (a former government official in the Dutch East Indies) and the Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam (a former resistance fighter).

Jens Henrik Nordlie

Jens Henrik Nordlie (19101996) was a Norwegian military officer, resistance fighter from World War II and businessperson.

Johannes Andersen

Johannes S. Andersen (1898–1970), Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II

Josef Buršík

Josef Buršík (born September 11, 1911 in Postřekov, died June 30, 2002 in Northampton) was a Czech resistance fighter, general, dissident, and political prisoner.

Končar

Rade Končar, World War II Yugoslav Communist resistance fighter

Liana Millu

Liana Millu (b.Pisa, December 21, 1914 – February 6, 2005) was a Jewish-Italian journalist, resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor, best known for her autobiography "Smoke over Birkenau".

Löwenberger Land

Libertas Schulze-Boysen, Resistance fighter, born November 20, 1913 in Paris, died December 22, 1942 in Berlin Plötzensee Prison, granddaughter of Philip von Eulenburg, spent her childhood at Liebenberg Castle.

Nikolaus Gross

Nikolaus Gross (German:Groß) (30 September 1898 – 23 January 1945) was a German resistance fighter and labor union leader in the time of the Third Reich who was later beatified by Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on 7 October 2001.

Robert Walter Richard Ernst von Görschen

The son Hans-Wolf von Görschen (1894−1944) was an honorary senator of the University of Greifswald, banker and businessman in Cologne and Rotterdam and a resistance fighter in the “Kreisau Circle”, so he was arrested in December 1944 and in April 1945 was executed by the Gestapo.

Smęcino

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922-2013), German resistance fighter and publisher

Walter Klingenbeck

Walter Klingenbeck (20 March 1924 in Munich – 5 August 1943 in Munich-Stadelheim) was a German resistance fighter in the time of the Third Reich.

Weidner

Johan Hendrik Weidner (1912–1994), Dutch World War II resistance fighter

Young Algerians

In an attempt to overcome this, the Young Algerians gained the support of the popular Khaled ibn Hashimi ibn Hajj Abd al Qadir, the grandson of Abd al Qadir, the resistance fighter of the 1830s.