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Fabian von Schlabrendorff
FABIAN LUDWIG GEORG ADOLF KURT VON SCHLABRENDORFF (1 July 1907 - 3 September 1980) was a German jurist, soldier, and member of the resistance against Adolf Hitler.
He was trained as a lawyer and l...lihat lebih banyakFABIAN LUDWIG GEORG ADOLF KURT VON SCHLABRENDORFF (1 July 1907 - 3 September 1980) was a German jurist, soldier, and member of the resistance against Adolf Hitler.
He was trained as a lawyer and later joined the German Army. As a lieutenant in the reserves, he was promoted to serve as adjutant to Col. Henning von Tresckow, a major leader in the resistance against Adolf Hitler. He joined the resistance and acted as a secret liaison between Tresckow in Russia and Ludwig Beck, Carl Goerdeler, Hans Oster, and Friedrich Olbricht in Berlin, taking part in various coup d’état plans and plots.
On 13 March 1943, his attempt to assassinate Hitler by smuggling a bomb onto his aircraft failed, and he managed to elude detection; however, he was arrested following the next failure, the 20 July Plot. He was sent to Gestapo prison and was brought before the Nazi People’s Court (Volksgerichtshof) on February 3, 1945, but an American air raid killed Judge-President Roland Freisler. Between February-May 1945, Schlabrendorff was moved from one concentration camp to another: Sachsenhausen, Flossenbürg, Dachau, Innsbruck. In late April 1945. He was transferred to Tyrol together with about 140 other prominent inmates of the Dachau concentration camp, where the SS-Guards fled after being confronted by a regular German Wehrmacht unit led by Wichard von Alvensleben. He was eventually liberated by the Fifth U.S. Army on 5 May 1945.
From 1967 to 1975, he was a judge of the Constitutional Court of West Germany, the country’s highest tribunal. He died in 1980, aged 73.
GERO VON SCHULZE-GAEVERNITZ (27 September 1901 - 6 April 1970) was a German economist. He became a crucial assistant of Allen Dulles in Europe and was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1945 for his skillful negotiations in Ascona, Switzerland, for the surrender of a million Nazi forces in World War II, with specific reference to Italy (Operation Sunrise).lihat lebih sedikit