Lilo Gloeden

Elisabeth "Lilo" Charlotte Gloeden (1903-44) was a German housewife beheaded with an axe on Nov. 30, 1944 for sheltering July 20th plotter Gen. Fritz Lindemann. Her husband and mother were likewise executed, and their fate publicized as a warning.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ The Second World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert, pg 615
↑ The Atlantic: World War II Women at War, picture 36

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