Helene Gotthold

Helene Gotthold (31 December 1896 – 8 December 1944) was a Jehovah's Witness who was guillotined by Nazi Germany at Plötzensee Prison. She was charged with giving asylum to men who refused to fight for the Nazis[1] and for holding illegal meetings for her faith.[2]

References

  1. Sian Reynolds (1987). Women, State and Revolution: Essays on Power and Gender in Europe Since 1789. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-87023-552-8.
  2. Bernard A. Cook (2006). Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present. ABC-CLIO. p. 329. ISBN 978-1-85109-770-8.

Further reading

  • Pateman, Colin (17 May 2017). Beheaded by Hitler: Cruelty of the Nazis, Judicial Terror and Civilian Executions 1933-1945. Fonthill Media. ISBN 9781781553435.
  • Bergen, Doris L (2017). War & genocide : a concise history of the Holocaust. University of British Columbia Crane Library. ISBN 9781442242272.



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