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He was born in Salmünster in Hessen.
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Joseph Muller
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After repeating a political joke, he was arrested and sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof in Berlin. He was executed by guillotine in Brandenburg-Görden Prison. According to the 2007 documentary Laughing with Hitler, the joke was about a soldier on his deathbed, who asked to see the people for whom he was laying down his life.
A portrait of the Führer was laid on his one side, a portrait of Göring on the other.
Then, he gasped: "Now I can die like Jesus Christ, between two criminals."
Each year on the anniversary of death, a bell is tolled at his former parish church in the village of Groß Düngen.
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September 11, 1944 (aged 50) -
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Germany -
Religion
Catholic Church