Adolf Reichwein
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Adolf Reichwein was a German educator, economist, and cultural policymaker for the SPD, who resisted the policies of Nazi Germany.
Reichwein, c. 1940
Adolf Reichwein at the Volksgerichtshof
Julius Leber
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Julius Leber was a German Social Democratic politician and a member of the German resistance against the Nazi regime.
Adolf Reichwein
…Reichwein was arrested by the Gestapo. On 20 October 1944, he was sentenced to death by Roland Freisler in a joint Volksgerichtshof trial alongside Julius Leber, Hermann Maaß, and Gustav Dahrendorf. He was executed next to Maaß at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin later that same day. Schaffendes Schulvolk. Kohlhammer…
Leber in 1930
Leber's official Reichstag portrait, 1924
Leber defending himself at his trial, 1944
Bridge in Berlin-Schöneberg named after Julius Leber