Wanda Kallenbach (born Wanda Möhring: 13 June 1902 – 18 August 1944) was a German housewife who complained about the government. The next year, on 20 April 1944, she faced criminal charges for undermining the war effort and helping the enemy ("Wehrkraftzersetzung und Feindbegünstigung"). She faced trial at the special "People's Court" on 21 June 1944 and was executed on the guillotine at Plötzensee a couple of months later.[1][2][3]
The opening up of Stasi archives after 1990 provided access to large amounts of information about the National Socialist years that had hitherto not been available to researchers and the wider public. Documents that had survived the war concerning Kallenbach's imprisonment and trial had been carefully archived and put away by the East German authorities, presumably while the region was still being administered as the Soviet occupation zone. A Berlin street was named after Kallenbach in 2006. Since then she has become a named victim of the Hitler government, invoked to represent thousands of others whose names remain lost to history.[4]
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- ^ Hildebrandt, Sabine (2012-12-13). "The women on stieve's list: Victims of national socialism whose bodies were used for anatomical research". Clinical Anatomy. 26 (1). Wiley: 3–21. doi:10.1002/ca.22195. hdl:2027.42/94885. ISSN 0897-3806.
- ^ Götz Aly (23 April 1991). "Stasi hortete Nazi-Akten". Im Document Center des Ostens, dem ehemaligen Sonderarchiv der Staatssicherheit im Berliner Stadtteil Hohenschönhausen, lagern höchst aufschlußreiche und unerforschte Dokumente aus der Nazizeit, die jetzt der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich sind. Sogar angeblich vernichtete Kranken- und Deportationsberichte der „Euthanasie-Aktion“ tauchen im Archivkeller auf. TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH, Berlin. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
- ^ Dietlinde Peters: „ ... und keiner kriegt mich einfach krumm gebogen ...“. Frauen in Friedrichshain und Kreuzberg. Herausgegeben vom Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum. Berlin Story, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95723-007-2, p. 29 f.