When the guards ordered prisoners to stage a performance in celebration of a Nazi anniversary, Litten read out a poem called Thoughts Are Free. By February 1938, he could endure no more. He took his own life by hanging himself. He was 34.Aug 19, 2011
On 28 February 1933, shortly after the Reichstag fire, Litten was arrested. From the Berlin Spandau prison he was transferred to the Brandenburg jail, and then to a forced labour camp in the Esterwegen Moor. Heavy physical labour and torture permanently damaged his health.
U.S. troops captured Adolf Eichmann when World War II ended, but he escaped in 1946 and settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1958. Israeli Mossad agents seized him there and smuggled him out of Argentina to stand trial in Israel.Mar 15, 2022
Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and lawyer who served as head of the General Government in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War....Hans FrankPersonal detailsBornHans Michael Frank23 May 1900 Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire28 more rows
Rudolf Hess is most famous for undertaking a secret solo flight from Bavaria to Scotland in May 1941 to deliver proposals for peace between Germany and Great Britain. Regarding Hess's mission as unauthorized and doubting his sanity, the British government held Hess as a prisoner of war through the end of World War II.
The NĂĽrnberg trials were a series of trials held in NĂĽrnberg, Germany, in 1945 and 1946 following the end of World War II. Former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals for their conduct by the International Military Tribunal.
The four major Allied powers—France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States—set up the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg, Germany, to prosecute and punish “the major war criminals of the European Axis.” The IMT presided over a combined trial of senior Nazi political and military ...