Carl Goedeler/Definition

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Carl Goedeler [r]: (1884-1944) Elected mayor of Leipzig, Germany in 1930, and holding anti-Nazi views, he resigned in 1937, and began traveling in search of a negotiated peace for Germany; worked with Ludwig Beck in the 20th of July planning; was to have been named Reich Chancellor had the coup succeeded; captured, interrogated under torture for five months, and executed