1. Ursula Goetze was a Berlin student and resistance fighter, who participated in political opposition to the Nazi government in Germany.
16 Facts About Ursula Goetze
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Ursula Goetze was her parents' third recorded child, born into a middle-class family.
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Between 1922 and 1933 Ursula Goetze attended school in the Berlin quarters of Wilmersdorf and Neukolln.
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Unlike many fifteen year old schoolchildren, Ursula Goetze followed the political developments of the early 1930s with keen interest.
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Ursula Goetze was at this stage particularly energised by the adverse social consequences of the Great Depression.
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Ursula Goetze took several foreign holidays, covering Czechoslovakia, France, Austria and Italy, and used these as opportunities to smuggle "anti-fascist reading matter" into Germany on the way home.
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In 1935, shortly before she was due to complete her studies, Ursula Goetze dropped out of school, and for several years took a succession of typing and secretarial jobs.
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Ursula Goetze collected money to support victims of political persecution.
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Ursula Goetze was becoming part of a network of like minded government opponents in Berlin.
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In 1938 Ursula Goetze resumed the formal education that she had abandoned in 1935, attending evening classes at the "Heilsche Abendgymnasium" a private college in Schoneberg, in order to prepare for the "Abitur".
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Ursula Goetze nevertheless resisted imprecations to stay in England, returning to Germany in order to pursue her work against the Hitler government.
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Ursula Goetze eventually passed her Abitur which opened the way for her to embark on a course at Berlin University, where she enrolled on 9 April 1940 to study Philology at the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik.
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Unsurprisingly in view of her activities and networks, Ursula Goetze soon came into contact with the resistance activists Harro Schulze-Boysen and Arvid Harnack, and their circle.
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Ursula Goetze's apartment was used for a number of secret meetings.
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In prison during the final months of her life, Ursula Goetze developed strong feelings of guilt, believing she had said more than was necessary and thereby unnecessarily incriminating Werner Krauss, who had had strong doubts about the sticker campaign.
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Ursula Goetze was one of sixteen people executed during a 45 minutes period at the Plotzensee prison during the early evening of 5 August 1943.