On this day, 4 March 1943, nine members of the German Jewish communist resistance group led by Herbert Baum were executed by guillotine in Berlin for an arson attack on a Nazi anti-communist exhibition. Those killed included (pictured, clockwise from top left) Marianne Prager-Joachim, Siegbert Rotholz, Hildegard Loewy, Hanni Meyer, Heinz Birnbaum and Lothar Salinger, as well as Hella Hirsch, Helmuth Neumann, and Heinz Rotholz.
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