Mühlenstraße 5, former NSDAP district office
In order to suppress the activities of the political opposition, Nazi groups went on patrol in Braunschweig from March 1933. On the night of June 29-30, two of these patrols encountered each other in Braunschweig. Assuming they were communists, they shot at each other. The SS man Gerhard Landmann was killed.
NS party members spread the word in public that it was an assassination attempt by communists. This deliberate distortion gave them the legitimacy to take violent action against members of the opposition in the state.
Late in the evening of July 6, auxiliary police squads in Wolfenbüttel followed orders to arrest opposition members listed by name and take them to the NSDAP district office on the upper floor of the building at Mühlenstraße 5. Here the detainees were subjected to indescribably uninhibited torture, after they had already been mistreated on the way there.
Otto Rüdiger, the first freely re-elected mayor in 1946, recalled in retrospect: "[In July 1933, the greatest crime committed by the Nazi hordes in Wolfenbüttel up to that point occurred. It][...]was the arrest of 15 Wolfenbüttelers who allegedly wanted to rebuild the KPD. The workers Alfred Müller, Alfred Perkampus and Fritz Fischer were regarded as the leaders of this reconstruction work. All of them were first transported to the [...] Mühlenstraße and terribly mistreated. After that, the beaten-up men were taken to the AOK Braunschweig in a truck. Perkampus died on the way to Braunschweig, Müller and Fischer breathed their last [a little later]. The victims were [...]buried near Helmstedt. Everyone in Wolfenbüttel shuddered as soon as they heard about the murders. Normal people simply could not believe such atrocities. [The perpetrators][had been]human animals."
In order to suppress the activities of the political opposition, Nazi groups went on patrol in Braunschweig from March 1933. On the night of June 29-30, two of these patrols encountered each other in Braunschweig. Assuming they were communists, they shot at each other. The SS man Gerhard Landmann was killed.
NS party members spread the word in public that it was an assassination attempt by communists. This deliberate distortion gave them the legitimacy to take violent action against members of the opposition in the state.
Late in the evening of July 6, auxiliary police squads in Wolfenbüttel followed orders to arrest opposition members listed by name and take them to the NSDAP district office on the upper floor of the building at Mühlenstraße 5. Here the detainees were subjected to indescribably uninhibited torture, after they had already been mistreated on the way there.
Otto Rüdiger, the first freely re-elected mayor in 1946, recalled in retrospect: "[In July 1933, the greatest crime committed by the Nazi hordes in Wolfenbüttel up to that point occurred. It][...]was the arrest of 15 Wolfenbüttelers who allegedly wanted to rebuild the KPD. The workers Alfred Müller, Alfred Perkampus and Fritz Fischer were regarded as the leaders of this reconstruction work. All of them were first transported to the [...] Mühlenstraße and terribly mistreated. After that, the beaten-up men were taken to the AOK Braunschweig in a truck. Perkampus died on the way to Braunschweig, Müller and Fischer breathed their last [a little later]. The victims were [...]buried near Helmstedt. Everyone in Wolfenbüttel shuddered as soon as they heard about the murders. Normal people simply could not believe such atrocities. [The perpetrators][had been]human animals."
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