![]() ![]() In February 1945 high-ranking friends managed, possibly by a bribe, to get his execution put off at the last moment and get him transferred to Fort Zinna, the Wehrmacht prison in Torgau. ![]() He was caught and sentenced by the Nazi Volksgerichtshof ("People's Court") to death by hanging. In 1945 Keller organized an anti-Nazi resistance group in Berlin which briefly ran a pirate radio station and which planned a rather foolhardy attempt on Hitler's life. While working as a senior staff member in Albert Speer's Ministry of Armaments, he saved the lives of many Jews. In 1933 he became a Doctor of Jurisprudence. ![]() He studied engineering and medicine, and then jurisprudence, in Berlin, Rostock, Zürich and Jena. Werner Keller (13 August 1909 in Gut Nutha, Anhalt – 29 February 1980 in Ascona) was a German civil servant, journalist, nonfiction author and anti-Nazi resistance fighter. ![]()
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