Schlageter celebration in Duesseldorf
A fire is burnt under a large cross in honour of Albert Leo Schlageter, executed in 1923 as Martyr of the Occupation of the Ruhr (undated). Schlageter, a member of the German Freikorps, who was close to the National Socialists, was sentenced to death by a French war trial on the 8th of May in 1923 because of participation in sabotage in the Ruhr Area and was court-martialled and shot at Golzheimer Heide near Duesseldorf on the 26th of May in 1923
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10646622
Media ID
45196300
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1349px x 2010px
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Credit
Mary Evans / picture-alliance / dpa
Date
30-Nov-99
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