Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Pencil sketch of an anti Nazi By Dr K Prabhakar Rao

ALBRECHT MERTZ VON QUIRNHEIM



 Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (25 March 1905 – 21 July 1944) was a German Army colonel and a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany involved in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler. After the plot failed, he was arrested very quickly along with his associates and were tried summarily by col gen framm who betrayed them and was executed in the court yard of the office by   fiing squad. They were immediately buried. However later the bodies were dug out and cremated as per Himmlers orders and ahes were scattered.



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