Count Albrecht von Bernstorff
(March 6, 1890 - April 23, 1945) Germany
Embassy counselor, banker
He has been called "one of the most courageous opponents of Hitler"; a retired senior counselor at the German Foreign Ministry and the nephew of the German ambassador to the U.S. during World War I, von Bernstorff used his personal and political connections to help Jews and other "undesirables" safely out of Germany and away from the Nazi death machine.
He also used his diplomatic connections to warn the Dutch government of Hitler's planned invasion of Holland in 1940. Betrayed by a Gestapo informant, von Bernstorff was arrested in September 10, 1944 and shot six months later. He is profiled in Ian Young's 1985 book Gay Resistance: Homosexuals in the Anti-Nazi Underground.
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