Lothar Salinger (8 May 1919 - 4 March 1943) was a politically engaged German worker and part of the Jewish youth movement in Berlin, who became a resistance activist and an associate of Herbert Baum.
[5] In 1940 Salinger began to take part in the activities of the anti-government resistance group headed up by the former "Young Communists" official, Herbert Baum.
This meant complementing from inside Germany the external efforts of the anti-German "allied powers", of which by far the most significant from the perspective of Berlin in 1941 was the Soviet Union.
That meant engaging in acts of sabotage on the home front such as producing and distributing anti-war leaflets and manifestoes.
A more widely reported action was the arson attack and leafleting blitz carried out on 18 May 1942 by members of the group against the government's ironically named "Soviet Paradise" in Berlin's Lustgarten park.
[2] The trial of at least 12 of Herbert Baum's associates took place before the special People's Court in Berlin on Thursday 10 December 1942.