For the March 1939 arrests in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, see Aktion Gitter (1939).
Aktion Gitter was a "mass arrest action" by the Gestapo which took place in Nazi Germany between 22 and 23 August 1944. It came just over a month after the failed attempt to assassinate the country's leader, Adolf Hitler, on 20 July 1944. The programme targeted former officials and members of mainstream centre and left-wing "Bourgeois" parties from the period of democratic government that were declared illegal after January 1933. Those arrested included Social Democrats and trades unionists, Liberals, Communists and Bavarian People's Party members, along with members of the old centre parties.[1]
^Johannes Tuchel (9 December 2004). "Inferno und Befreiung: Die Rache des Regimes .... Die Verfolgung der Verschwörer vom 20. Juli steigerte sich in den letzten Monaten des Hitler-Reichs zum "totalen Krieg" auch im Innern: Unzählige politische Gegner wurden hingerichtet". Die Zeit (online). Retrieved 9 September 2015.
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