Posted on May 14, 2019
They Resisted Hitler. They Were Executed. At Last, They Lay at Rest.
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The microscopic remains of dozens of prisoners, most of them women, who were executed for resisting Adolf Hitler and whose bodies were used for research by Nazi doctors, were buried in a simple wooden box at a Berlin cemetery on Monday.
A plaque that tells of the victims’ fate will be placed over the grave, in Dorotheenstadt cemetery, where other victims of the Nazis are also buried. The cemetery is several blocks behind the Charité, Berlin’s main research hospital.
The fragments of the prisoners’ remains were given to the hospital two years ago by the descendants of Hermann Stieve, a doctor who made a deal with the Nazis to obtain the remains of the prisoners for research. They had been killed at the Plötzensee prison, which is in western Berlin.
The fragments were contained on 300 glass microscope slides, each only a hundredth of a millimeter thick and roughly a square inch in size.
A plaque that tells of the victims’ fate will be placed over the grave, in Dorotheenstadt cemetery, where other victims of the Nazis are also buried. The cemetery is several blocks behind the Charité, Berlin’s main research hospital.
The fragments of the prisoners’ remains were given to the hospital two years ago by the descendants of Hermann Stieve, a doctor who made a deal with the Nazis to obtain the remains of the prisoners for research. They had been killed at the Plötzensee prison, which is in western Berlin.
The fragments were contained on 300 glass microscope slides, each only a hundredth of a millimeter thick and roughly a square inch in size.
They Resisted Hitler. They Were Executed. At Last, They Lay at Rest.
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Posted 5 y ago
The results of Hitler and his madness will haunt us for many years to come.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter LT Brad McInnis PO3 Bob McCord CW3 Dick McManus SGT John " Mac " McConnell CWO3 Dennis M. MSgt Stephen Council LTC (Join to see) LTC Stephan PorterLTC Stephen C. LTC Greg Henning SGT Gregory Lawritson Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. SGT Jim Arnold Maj Robert Thornton Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen SFC Francisco Rosario LTC (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Never forget the victims of Hitler's madness
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SPC Mark Huddleston - Their stories are powerful messages to never forget and stop this from happening again.
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At least they can now rest with some level of dignity. Still amazes me that to this day some people claim things like this never happened.
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