Margarete Blank: A portrait
TitleMargarete Blank: A portrait
Author
Call number940.5318/0422
Object number08867k
Place of publicationPrague, Czech Republic
Year of publication
2013
Physical descriptionpp106-115
MaterialArticle
ISBN9788087211793
NotesArticle from the book 'Lest we forget: memory of totalitarianism in Europe' pp106-115
Description
Margarete Blank was born in Kiev, became a dedicated doctor, and was denounced by a fellow physician in 1944 for her doubts about Germany's 'final victory' in World War II. She was sentenced to death for the crime of 'corruption of the military force' and was executed in February 1945. During the National Socialist dictatorship people were politically persecuted, sentenced and executed merely for their beliefs. Margarete Blank, a physician who dedicated herself to her patients, was one of them