April 29, 2019

Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff

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Wolf-Heinrich Julius Otto Bernhard Fritz Hermann Ferdinand Graf von Helldorff (1896-1944) was a German police official and politician, who served as a Member of the Prussian Parliament during the Weimar Republic, as a Member of the Reichstag for the Nazi Party from 1933, and as president of police in Potsdam and Berlin. From 1938, the Graf became associated with the anti-Nazi resistance, and was executed in 1944 for his role in the July 20th plot to overthrow Hitler's regime.

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