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| The guillotine used at the Nazi prison Ploetzensee, near Berlin, where 3000 people were executed. The inmates were dissidents, not necessarily Jews. |
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From the hooks on the ceiling prisoners were hanged with nooses of piano wire. |
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| Cell block at Ploetzensee |
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Mildred Harnack-Fish, one of the victims, a US citizen married to a German. Both were executed. |
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| Part of Hitler's signed denial of clemency for 17 Ploetzensee prisoners sentenced to death. 13 were women. |
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Families of those executed received a bill for the expenses of the trial, room and board, and the execution - including the stamp to mail the bill. |
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