Helmut Hirsch (January 27, 1916 in Stuttgart – June 4, 1937 in Berlin) was a German Jew who was executed for his part in a bombing plot intended to destabilize the German Reich. Although a full and accurate account of the plot is unknown, his targets were understood to be the Nazi party headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, and/or the plant where the anti-Semitic weekly propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer was printed.
Hirsch was born on January 27, 1916, in Stuttgart, the elder of the two children of Marta Neuburger Hirsch and Siegfried Hirsch. In 1935, after passage of the Nuremberg Laws excluded Jews from German universities, he moved to Prague, the capital of what was then Czechoslovakia. He was nineteen when he enrolled as a student of architecture at the Deutsche Technische Hochschule (German Institute of Technology) there.
Read more about Helmut Hirsch: The Black Front, Arrest and Imprisonment, Trial, International Appeals For Clemency, American Diplomacy
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