Today In Labor History April 8, 1943: The Nazis executed Otto and Elise Hampel for making anti-Nazi postcards and leaving them in public places. They were an anti-fascist working-class couple. After finding out that Elise's brother had been killed in action, they began to organize against the Third Reich. From September 1940 until their arrest in the fall of 1942, they hand-wrote over 287 postcards, which they left in mailboxes and stairwells in Berlin. The messages in these postcards urged people to refuse cooperation with the Nazis, to refuse military service, and to overthrow Hitler. The Nazis imprisoned and beheaded them in Berlin's Plötzensee Prison. Hans Fallada wrote about them in his 1947 novel, Every Man Dies Alone (Alone in Berlin in the UK). The story was filmed in 2016 as Alone in Berlin.

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