Walter Klingenbeck [SEP] place of death
Walter Klingenbeck
Walter Klingenbeck (30 March 1924, in Munich – 5 August 1943, in Munich-Stadelheim) was a German resistance fighter in the time of the Third Reich.
Walter Klingenbeck came from a Catholic family. He was a member of the St. Ludwig Catholic Youth Troop until it was banned and dissolved by the Nazi régime. This experience laid the groundwork for his critical stance towards the aforesaid régime, which was further strengthened when the young radio enthusiast listened to German-language broadcasts from the BBC, Radio
again. However, the proliferation of information "jeopardizing the resisting force of the German people" was punished with incarceration or even with the death penalty in aggravated cases. Death sentences were seldom based solely on the radio-measures act, but — e.g. in the cases of Helmuth Hübener and Walter Klingenbeck — rested on convictions for high treason or "Wehrkraftzersetzung".
Estimates of how many citizens listened to "Feindsender" vary. According to "Sicherheitsdienst" reports, a large-scale campaign in 1941, charging Nazi "