Maurice Bavaud was a Swiss theology student who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1938.
Maurice Bavaud
School photo of Maurice Bavaud (in red circle)
Stele dedicated to Maurice Bavaud in Hauterive, Switzerland
Plötzensee Prison is a men's prison in the Charlottenburg-Nord locality of Berlin with a capacity for 577 prisoners, operated by the State of Berlin judicial administration. The detention centre established in 1868 has a long history; it became notorious during the Nazi era as one of the main sites of capital punishment, where about 3,000 inmates were executed. Famous inmates include East Germany's last communist leader Egon Krenz.
Plötzensee Prison
Exterior sign at Plötzensee Memorial, 1984
Plötzensee Memorial, 2005
Peter Buchholz; "OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL – CASE THREE OMT-III-W-56 / Witness Peter Buchholz, former prison chaplain at the Berlin-Plötzensee Prison, who described prison conditions there. He stated that there were people executed there during his time for whom stay of execution papers were in processing, perhaps even reprieve action."