Talk:Rudolf Breitscheid

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This article says he died on August 24, 1944, but then it refers to Nazi information that he was killed in allied bomb attack on August 28. The August 24 date is probably more reliable than the Nazi based information, but I dont know why the Nazi information is even listed since it is so unreliable and since he was probably just killed by the Nazis since he was an enemy of the state.

Why would that be "unreliable" compared to other sources. The Death by bombing is the most plausibe explanation so far. --41.151.46.135 (talk) 21:24, 13 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Burial place[edit]

According to this [1] Breitscheid is buried at Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde (the Socialists Cemetery).--Goldsztajn (talk) 11:28, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed.--Goldsztajn (talk) 11:35, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Death[edit]

In Nikolaus Wachsmann's KL - A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps is written that RB was killed on August 24, 1944 when "an US raid on the Buchenwald armaments works killed almost four hundred prisoners, including the former SPD chairman in the Reichstag, Rudolf Breitscheid. The SS also suffered more than one hundred casualties during the attack, ...". Nikolaus Wachsmann cites, among others, Röll, Wolfgang, 2000, Sozialdemokraten im Konzentrationslager Buchenwald 1937-1945. Unter Einbeziehung biographischer Skizzen, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, pp. 139-56; Kirsten, Holm and Kirsten, Wulf, (i.a.), 2002,Stimmen aus Buchenwald, Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora, ISBN 978-3-89244-574-6, pp. 188-92.

Wachsmann, Nikolaus, 2015, KL - A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, first ebook edition, ISBN 978-1-4299-4372-7, loc. 14167 - p. 586.

Carlotm (talk) 21:28, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]