Benita von Falkenhayn (died February 18, 1935) was a German baroness. She was related to Erich von Falkenhayn. In her early thirties she met the Polish intelligence agent Major Jerzy Sosnowski and became his lover. In February 1935, she was arrested with her friend and Sosnowski's other lover, Renate von Natzmer. They were both found guilty of espionage and treason and sentenced to death. Two days later, after appeals for clemency had been turned down, … Wikipedia
The executioner known as Groepler severed the head of Benita von Falkenhayn with one stroke of his ax. www.coldwarhistory.us/Exhibitions/History/Love__Espionage...
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There was scarcely a word in the papers. No one would mention it by telephone or letter, yet everywhere that Germans met last week, behind locked doors where no servants could hear, they talked of... www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,754540,00.html
