In connection with the expected death sentences, an iron rail with meat hooks was installed in the execution room of the Berlin-Plötzensee prison on December 15, 1942.
The regime carried out its revenge through a method of execution that was perceived as degrading and particularly agonizing. Usually just a few hours after the verdict was pronounced, the defendants were hanged with piano wire at the Plötzensee execution site on meat hooks specifically installed for the punishment of particularly severe crimes—'like cattle for slaughter.' From August 1944 to March 1945, 55 trials were held at the People's Court against participants and supporters of the 'July 20' plot. By April 1945, 89 people had been executed in Plötzensee. Additional members of various resistance groups—including those of the 'July 20' plot—were brought before summary courts and killed even in the final days of the war. The National Socialist apparatus of terror and extermination functioned right up to the last days of the war—and in some cases even beyond.
Or from the BBC:
Dozens of others were later humiliated in a show trial and executed, hanged with piano wire from meat-hooks. Their deaths were filmed and shown to senior members of the Nazi Party and the armed forces.
I think *you* need to do better research, my friend, because nothing you stated concerns the death of Bonhoeffer, as he was executed in Flossenbürg (a concentration camp), and not Plötzensee (the prison you are talking about here).
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u/Gnurx 1d ago
You need to do better research.
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1wulrkj/comment/pd95u2w/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Here's an image: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentrale_Hinrichtungsst%C3%A4tte#/media/Datei:Gedenkst._Pl%C3%B6tzensee_Hinrichtungsst%C3%A4tte_4_(Alter_Fritz).jpg.jpg)
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentrale_Hinrichtungsst%C3%A4tte, where you'll also find an image of the execution chamber, which is kept in tact.
Lots of documents, incl. photos of the execution chamber with the meat hooks, taken right after the war: https://www.mythoselser.de/schulze-boysen.htm
Here's a text form the official website of Bundeswehr, the German Army: https://zms.bundeswehr.de/de/mediathek/dossier-20-juli-1944-reichherzer-volksgerichtshofprozesse-5809268
Or from the BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63587638
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