{"id":6253,"date":"2017-03-03T20:23:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T02:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6253"},"modified":"2017-03-03T20:23:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T02:23:41","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-26-feb-4-march-1945-without-goodness-or-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6253","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 26 Feb&#8211;4 March 1945: Without goodness or grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6255\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=6255\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6255\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6255\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6255\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WErnstvonHarnack-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WErnstvonHarnack-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WErnstvonHarnack-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WErnstvonHarnack.jpg 671w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memorial to Ernst von Harnack at the von Harnack family grave site in Berlin [Author: Axel Mauruszat, Creative Commons Share Alike 4.0 International]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war saw the execution in Pl\u00f6tzensee Prison\u00a0of the German Social Democrat politician Ernst von Harnack.<\/p>\n<p>In 1933, von Harnack had voiced his opposition to the new Hitler-led government, describing it as \u2018without goodness or grace.\u2019 [Quoted by Martin Gilbert in his book <em>Second World War<\/em> (Stoddart, 1989)].<\/p>\n<p>Like many that were executed by the Nazis in the final\u00a0months of the war, von Harnack was accused of involvement\u00a0in the <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6089\">20 July bomb plot<\/a>\u00a0against Hitler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the war saw the execution in Pl\u00f6tzensee Prison\u00a0of the German Social Democrat politician Ernst von Harnack. In 1933, von Harnack had voiced his opposition to the new Hitler-led government, describing it as \u2018without goodness or grace.\u2019 [Quoted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1072,81,1073],"class_list":["post-6253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-ernst-von-harnack","tag-martin-gilbert","tag-plotzensee-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6256,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions\/6256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}