Word: schlabrendorff
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...think it is especially interesting that one of the liberal judges mentioned in your article "Speaking Out in Germany" [Feb. 15] is Fabian von Schlabrendorff. Nearly 30 years ago while still a young officer in the Wehrmacht, Von Schlabrendorff was involved in a number of plots to assassinate Hitler...
Conspirator Fabian von Schlabrendorff testified that he had been chained to a bed on the fourth floor of the notorious Prinz Albrechstrasse headquarters of the Reich Security Office. His body was stretched with mechanical devices, screws were driven into his thighs and thumbs. An SS man told him: "It has lasted a long time for the little admiral [Canaris]." Schlabrendorff asked the SS man if he wasn't sickened by his job. The shrugging reply: "We get a bonus of schnapps and blutwurst...
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