Karl Friedrich Goerdeler before the People's Court, 1944 (b/w photo)

Berlin, Berlin/City State, Germany. Karl Friedrich Goerdeler, former Lord Mayor of Leipzig until 1937 and then one of the leading men of the resistance against Hitler, as a defendant before the People's Court in Berlin on 8 September 1944. Karl Friedrich Goerdeler vor dem Volksgerichtshof, 1944, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was a monarchist conservative German politician, executive, economist, civil servant, and opponent of the Nazi regimeHad the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler of 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government. He was executed by hanging on 2 February 1945..