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On July 20, 1944, an attempt was made on Adolf Hitler's life with explosives. Hitler survived, but the planned overthrow of the government failed. Lieutenant Colonel Werner Schrader, who had worked in Wolfenbüttel, was also a member of the resistance group. He had supplied the explosives for the bomb. "I will not go to prison, I will not be tortured", he wrote on a note on July 28 and shot himself.
When it was discovered in Wolfenbüttel that a former teacher and resident of the town had been one of the "traitors", a veritable hysteria broke out among the local protagonists of the Nazi regime. A primary school pupil at the time recalled in 2015: "One summer day, school was interrupted. We had to leave the building and line up in the schoolyard [...]. And then a man in uniform [...]appeared, mounted a small podium and began not to make a speech, but to shout, shout, shout ... I [...]was afraid because [I]didn't realize who was actually being threatened and why."
Werner Schrader, born in 1895, was a native of Königslutter. After training as a teacher, he immediately volunteered for military service. After the end of the war, he went to work as a school teacher in Wolfenbüttel at the castle. He took up residence at Reichsstraße 1 (Prinzenpalais).
Schrader was involved in several German nationalist associations, including the Stahlhelm military association. Despite his basic nationalist views, he came into conflict with the National Socialists ruling the Free State of Brunswick. He was accused of high treason and dismissed from the teaching profession.
After being granted amnesty, Werner Schrader was called up to the Wehrmacht and assigned to the headquarters of the army high command. He was given access to the military resistance circle around Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. Here he set up a secret archive with reports and photographs of SS atrocities
On July 20, 1944, an attempt was made on Adolf Hitler's life with explosives. Hitler survived, but the planned overthrow of the government failed. Lieutenant Colonel Werner Schrader, who had worked in Wolfenbüttel, was also a member of the resistance group. He had supplied the explosives for the bomb. "I will not go to prison, I will not be tortured", he wrote on a note on July 28 and shot himself.
When it was discovered in Wolfenbüttel that a former teacher and resident of the town had been one of the "traitors", a veritable hysteria broke out among the local protagonists of the Nazi regime. A primary school pupil at the time recalled in 2015: "One summer day, school was interrupted. We had to leave the building and line up in the schoolyard [...]. And then a man in uniform [...]appeared, mounted a small podium and began not to make a speech, but to shout, shout, shout ... I [...]was afraid because [I]didn't realize who was actually being threatened and why."
Werner Schrader, born in 1895, was a native of Königslutter. After training as a teacher, he immediately volunteered for military service. After the end of the war, he went to work as a school teacher in Wolfenbüttel at the castle. He took up residence at Reichsstraße 1 (Prinzenpalais).
Schrader was involved in several German nationalist associations, including the Stahlhelm military association. Despite his basic nationalist views, he came into conflict with the National Socialists ruling the Free State of Brunswick. He was accused of high treason and dismissed from the teaching profession.
After being granted amnesty, Werner Schrader was called up to the Wehrmacht and assigned to the headquarters of the army high command. He was given access to the military resistance circle around Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. Here he set up a secret archive with reports and photographs of SS atrocities
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