Erika von Brockdorff

Brockdorff was a member of what the Reich Security Main Office termed the Red Orchestra resistance movement.

[4] In 1937, she married the sculptor Graf Cay–Hugo von Brockdorff, and shortly thereafter, their daughter Saskia was born.

She was sentenced at the Reichskriegsgericht to ten years in labour prison (Zuchthaus) in January 1943.

Adolf Hitler was not satisfied with this, however, and on the very same day as the judgment, on his orders, the sentence was changed to death.

On the evening of 13 May 1943, she was put to death, by guillotine, along with thirteen other persons at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.