“Now all waiting has an end, the way finally lies clearly before me again, and the aim is known to us Christians. How many times have I preached about it, and now it is near.”
Karl Friedrich Stellbrink
These are the words Karl Friedrich Stellbrink writes to his wife on the afternoon of 10 November 1943.
Karl Friedrich Stellbrink
A few hours earlier the condemned had received the news that their death sentence would be carried out the same day. Before that, the clergymen are to receive Holy Communion. Eduard Müller writes to his sister:
Eduard Müller
These words are in Hermann Lange’s farewell letter to his parents and his brother Paul.
Hermann Lange
Johannes Prassek writes to his parents:
Johannes Prassek
At 6 p.m., the executors arrive. For an endlessly long way, the clergymen are brought to the execution chamber one after the other with their hands tied behind their backs. The guillotine strikes four times within minutes and the blood of the four men flows into each other.