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régime, stating that "This is the end of the Third Reich, and the guilty can now be brought to punishment". Mehlhausen, a party member, informed the local party chief who knew the Gestapo in Berlin. He returned to work in Berlin and later that year, he spoke to colleagues about the 1933 Reichstag
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On a trip home in September 1943, Arndt met an old schoolfriend Hanneliese Mehlhausen and told her about how the Nazi regime would fall the same way Mussolini's party fared in Italy. He criticised the
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who was also an SS member reported him. Stichel may have also held a professional grudge. Arndt was arrested on 14 January 1944 and called to the People's Court on 11 May 1944 and Judge
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in 1909. Even as a student, several companies invited him to take part in various expeditions. In this way, Arndt ended up exploring the
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Arndt was the son of a veterinarian, Fedor, who was in charge of the local slaughter house in Landeshut, Silesia. After studies at the
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Eisentraut, M. (1986). "Vom Leben und Sterben des Zoologen WALTHER ARNDT ein Zeitdokument aus Deutschlands schwärzesten Tagen".
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and became primary curator in 1925 of the sponge, worm, moss animal, cnidarian, and echinoderm collections, while also being an
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sentenced him to death on the same day. Despite many appeals for clemency from academics including from Hanns von Lengerken,
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to cover the expenses of the execution apart from 20 cents to cover postage and other costs.
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In 1921 Arndt changed jobs and became an assistant at the Zoological Institute in
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Tembrock, G. (1986). "WALTHER ARNDT, eine Erinnerung an den 26. Juni 1944".
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in Berlin, and a professor, he was executed for being critical of the
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Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin
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Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin
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fire as being part of a Nazi conspiracy. An entomologist colleague
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Arndt was the author of nearly 250 scientific publications on
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For the scholar and translator of German and Russian, see
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his father sent him to study medicine and zoology at the
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Scientists active at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
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Arndt's body was dissected for research by his friend
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Walter W. Arndt

Landeshut
Silesia
Poland
Brandenburg
zoologist
physician
Museum für Naturkunde
Nazi Party
University of Breslau
Hohe Tauern
Corsica
Norway
Willy Kükenthal
Breslau
Berlin
North Sea
Willy Kükenthal
ordentlicher Professor
Fauna Arctica
International Zoological Nomenclature Commission
Judaism

Nazi
Wolfgang Stichel
Roland Freisler
Oskar Heinroth
Katharina Heinroth
Ferdinand Sauerbruch

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