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During the Second World War and before in Germany, to resist Hitler and the Nazi Party was considered a very dangerous thing to have done. It usually resulted in someone being executed, and there was a prison in Berlin which became a horrific site of execution with 3000 opponents of the Third Reich being executed there. Plotzensee Prison was referred to as 'The House of the Dead,' for the sheer amount of executions that occurred there. Most of the condemned people were executed by the guillotine or the fallbeil, or by hanging on a large beam at the top of the execution chamber. The youngest person ever executed by the Nazis, 17 year old Helmuth Hubener was condemned inside of the execution chamber at Plotzensee as were many people who rebelled. Some executions were prolonged to make people suffer more, and some were even filmed for Hitler to then watch back on tape. But Plotzensee became infamous as a brutal and bloody prison, where many people would never be released. Join us today as
