Bernhard Letterhaus

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Bernhard Letterhaus at the People's Court
Left: Statue of Bernhard Letterhaus at the city hall tower of Cologne

Bernhard Letterhaus (10 July 1894,

Trade Unionist and member of the resistance to Nazism
.

He grew up in Barmen, Wuppertal, and after an apprenticeship in a textile factory, he was an active member of the Association of Christian textile workers. He served in World War I and was then secretary of the Catholic Labour Movement in Mönchengladbach. He moved to Cologne where he was in contact with Nikolaus Gross, a fellow Catholic opponent of the Nazis.

He was conscripted into the

Carl Goerdeler's group. If the attempt to assassinate Hitler had succeeded he was earmarked to be the Reconstruction Minister. He was arrested in its aftermath, tried by the People's Court, sentenced to death by Roland Freisler and executed at Plötzensee Prison
the next day.

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