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...went home to Germany. Still, he felt he must return. Back in Germany, Bonhoeler took an active part in the anti-Nazi underground. The Gestapo caught up with him on April 5, 1943. He spent two years in prisons and concentration camps before he was hanged, at 39, at Flossenburg in Bavaria, for plotting to kill Hitler...
...years," said Deputy Heuillard, "I was in a concentration camp. I saw die all my comrades in the Resistance network. I saw die in Flossenburg almost the entire shipment of prisoners who had come from Buchenwald ... We had sworn an oath among us that the eventual survivors would never permit Germany to recreate her military strength. Today, despite all these memories, despite all these material and moral ruins still yawning before us, we are about to recreate the German army ... Is our public opinion ready to accept the consequences? Ask those who were deported or the families of those...
Hans Lunding, a Danish political prisoner, had a cell next to Canaris at Flossenburg prison. One day Canaris was led away for questioning. When he returned, the admiral raised his heavily chained arms and in the international code tapped out on the wall: "Bridge of my nose broken. My time is up. Send love to my wife." Next morning Lunding heard an SS man bark: "Strip off all clothes." Canaris, stripped, was led out never to return. (To humiliate the high officers in the plot, the Nazis stripped them, strangled many slowly with piano wire...
Yvonne returned to Paris in November 1945 and tried to reassemble her life. Comte Bernard had died in a German prison camp at Flossenburg. The La Rochefoucauld château in Normandy had been bombed and burned. France had awarded Yvonne the Croix de Guerre with three palms and star for her war work. From England came the King's Medal for her work with British Intelligence. But the countess was hard up. Although she held a medical degree from the University of Paris, she could not practice because of her concentration-camp injuries...
When Hitler came, Figl, who opposed Anschluss, obscurely and honorably disappeared into concentration camps, first Dachau, then Flossenburg. After six years the Nazis slipped up, set him free. Promptly Figl set to work as an organizer in what little underground movement Austria developed. He represented the Austrian resistance in contacts with the much stronger Polish underground. After liberation he founded the Volkspartei of small agrarians, much like Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party...
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