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THE PRICE OF STANDING UP: DEATH OF LILO HERRMANN

Today in Berlin: 20 June, 1938

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On this day in 1938 Liselotte, better known as Lilo, Herrmann, a 28-year-old Communist and anti-Nazi activist, was beheaded in Berlin’s notorious Plötzensee prison. She had spent 31 months in confine…

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