Lilo Gloeden
Elisabeth "Lilo" Charlotte Gloeden (1903–1944) was a German lawyer and housewife beheaded with an axe on November 30, 1944 for sheltering July 20th plotter General Fritz Lindemann. Her husband and mother were likewise executed, and their fate publicized as a warning.[1][2]
Biography
Lilo Gloeden (born Elisabeth Kuznitsky) was a lawyer who married architect Erich Gloeden. Erich had been born Jewish with the surname Loevy, before it was changed and he was baptized. Living in Berlin, the couple jointly opposed the Nazi movement and provided temporary accommodation to Jewish people fleeing persecution. In July 1944, the Gloedens became aware of a plot against Hitler, and five days after the failed assassination took in one of the plotters, Fritz Lindemann, who was evading the Gestapo. On August 20, 1944, the Gestapo raided the Gloedens’ home, capturing Lindemann and taking Lilo, Erich and Lilo's mother, Elisabeth, into custody. On November 27, the three were put on a widely publicized trial for treason. All three were found guilty and put to death by beheading a mere three days later on November 30.[3]
Legacy
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Gloeden, her husband and her mother are memorialized by three bronze plaques, stolpersteine, installed outside the location of their apartment.[3] President of the Bundestag, Norbert Lammert has noted that the national history of each country is the sum of the many, personal stories of people who usually remain unobserved or quickly forgotten like those of the Gloedens, whose story is an example of how in Germany a few generations ago people were excluded from the nation whose self-evident members they were.[4]
References
- ↑ The Second World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert, pg 615
- ↑ The Atlantic: World War II Women at War, picture 36
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Colin Pateman (2017). Beheaded by Hitler: Cruelty of the Nazis, Judicial Terror and Civilian Executions 1933-1945. Fonthill Media. pp. 106–108. ISBN 978-1781553435. Search this book on
- ↑ Norbert Lammert (3 October 2016). "Rede zum Tag der Deutschen Einheit 2016" (in German). Retrieved 2018-02-24.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
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