1. Heinz Strelow's mother was Meta Heinz Strelow nee Dannat from Hamburg, who ran an arts and craft business there.
14 Facts About Heinz Strelow
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Heinz Strelow's father had been a communist, as was his mother.
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Heinz Strelow was influenced by a teacher while he was in 11th grade in school, so he became a member of the banned Young Communist League of Germany in 1932.
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Heinz Strelow began to resist against the Nazis in 1933.
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Heinz Strelow was betrayed by a former classmate and arrested by the Gestapo on 8 October 1935.
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Heinz Strelow was taken into protective custody without trial in a concentration camp in Fuhlsbuttel for several weeks and only released on 23 November 1935.
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When Heinz Strelow was released he left school, and continued to support his mother, by working at her business.
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Heinz Strelow continued his resistance activity in the workers' youth movement and organized a Hamburg group that had contacts with Klaus Bucking and Gustav Bohrnsen in Bremen.
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Heinz Strelow was deployed to a construction company in the polish, town of Dabie, where he worked to repair destroyed bridges.
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In 1940, while in a holiday in Hamburg, Heinz Strelow married Liselotte Ruggen nee Timm.
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Van Beek and Heinz Strelow became involved in writing and distributing leaflets and paphlets.
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Heinz Strelow was arrested on 1 October 1942 by the Gestapo.
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On 13 May 1943, Heinz Strelow was executed by guillotine at Plotzensee Prison along with twelve other members of the group, on the same day.
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Heinz Strelow was guillotined on 5 August 1943 at Plotzensee Prison in Berlin.