Politics, Resistance
| Name | Lifespan | Nationality | Achievements | Cause of Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgar André | 1894–1936, executed, Hamburg | German | Communist | |
| Friedrich Aue | 1896–1944, executed, Brandenburg | German | Communist | |
| Olga Benário Prestes | 1908–1942, Ravensbrück | German-Brazilian | Communist | |
| Judith Auer | 1905–1944, executed, Berlin | German | resistance fighter | |
| Bernhard Bästlein | 1894–1944, executed, Brandenburg | German | Communist | |
| Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff | d. 1945, murdered in custody, Berlin | German | diplomat | |
| Cato Bontjes van Beek | 1920–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | resistance fighter | |
| Rudolf Breitscheid | 1874–1944, Buchenwald | German | Social democrat | |
| Hans Coppi | 1916–1942, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | resistance fighter | |
| Hilde Coppi | 1909–1943, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | resistance fighter | |
| Tone Čufar | 1905–1942, shot during an escape attempt | Slovenian | resistance fighter | |
| Otto Eggerstedt | d. 1933, Esterwegen | German | Social democrat | |
| Fritz Elsas | d. 1945, Sachsenhausen | German | politician | |
| Georg Elser | 1903–1945, executed, Dachau | German | manual labourer, Rotfront-Kämpfer | |
| Yitzhak Gitterman | 1889–1943, fighting in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Polish | Politician, Director of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | |
| Carl Friedrich Goerdeler | 1884–1945, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | Mayor of Leipzig, Putschist | |
| Herschel Grynszpan | 1921–1943/1945, location and date of death not known, possibly Gestapo-Prison Berlin-Moabit | German | assassin | |
| Max Habermann | d. 1944, prison in Gifhorn | German | trade unionist | |
| Albrecht Haushofer | 1903–1945, executed, Berlin-Moabit | German | diplomat, writer | |
| Rudolf Henning | d. 1944, executed, Sachsenhausen | German | ||
| Rudolf Hilferding | 1877–1941, in Gestapo custody, Paris | German | Social democrat | |
| Otto Hirsch | d. 1941, Mauthausen concentration camp | German | Representation of German Jews | |
| Camill Hoffmann | d. 1944, Auschwitz | German | diplomat, writer | |
| Martin Hoop | 1892–1933, Zwickau | German | Communist, District Leader KPD, Saxony | |
| Franz Jacob | d. 1944, executed, Brandenburg | German | Communist | |
| Walter Krämer | d. 1941, "shot while trying to escape", KZ Goslar | German | Communist | |
| Marian Kudera | d. 1944, executed, Dachau | German | resistance fighter | |
| Albert Kuntz | d. 1945, posterior to torture Nordhausen | German | Communist | |
| Ludwig Landmann | 1868-5 March 1945, starved to death in hiding place | German | DDP Politician, Mayor of Frankfurt am Main | |
| Julius Leber | 1891–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | Socialist | |
| Wilhelm Leuschner | 1890–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | Politician | |
| Marinus van der Lubbe | 1909–1934, Leipzig | Dutch | arsonist | |
| August Lütgens | d. 1933, executed, Amtsgericht Altona | German | Communist | |
| Rosa Manus | d. 1943, Ravensbrück | German | Women's rights advocate | |
| Walter Möller | d. 1933, executed, Amtsgericht Altona | German | Communist | |
| Ottilie Pohl | d. 1942, Theresienstadt | German | resistance fighter | |
| Fritz Pröll | 1915–1944, suicide due to threatened torture, Nordhausen | German | resistance fighter | |
| Anton Saefkow | 1903–1944, executed, Zuchthaus Brandenburg | German | Communist, resistance fighter | |
| Ernst Schneller | d. 1944, executed, Sachsenhausen | German | KPD Politician | |
| Werner Scholem | d. 1940, Buchenwald | German | Communist | |
| Hans Scholl | 1918–1943, executed, Munich–Stadelheim Prison | German | resistance fighter, medical student | |
| Sophie Scholl | 1921–1943, executed, Munich–Stadelheim Prison | German | resistance fighter, student | |
| Slavko Šlander | 1909–1941, executed | Slovenian | resistance fighter | |
| Bruno Tesch | 1913–1933, executed, Amtsgericht Altona | German | Communist | |
| Ernst Thälmann | 1886–1944, executed, Buchenwald | German | KPD Politician | |
| Mathias Thesen | d. 1944, executed, Sachsenhausen | German | ||
| Adam von Trott zu Solz | d. 1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | diplomat | |
| Karl Wolff | died 1933 executed, Amtsgericht Altona | German | Communist | |
| Richard Schmitz | 1885-1938 survived Dachau | Austrian | mayor of Vienna | |
| Georges Mandel | 1885–1944, murdered in the Forest of Fontainebleau | French | politician, resistance leader | |
| Victor Basch | 1877–1945, assassinated by the Vichy French Milice | French | esthetician, politician | |
| Jenő Deutsch (Eugen Deutsch) | 1879–1944 | Hungarian | social democratic politician | |
| Kazimierz Bartel | 1882–1941, executed | Polish | Prime Minister of Poland 1926-1930 | |
| Stefan Rowecki | 1895–1944, executed in Warsaw | Polish | general, journalist, leader of the Armia Krajowa | |
| Stefan Starzyński | 1893–1943, fate unknown, possibly died in Dachau | Polish | politician, economist, writer, statesman |
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