Editing Arthur Nebe (section)

===1944 plot against Adolf Hitler===

Nebe was involved in the [[20 July plot]] against [[Adolf Hitler]]; he was to lead a team of 12 policemen to kill Himmler, but the signal to act never reached him.{{sfn|Balfour|1988|p=164}} After the failed assassination attempt, Nebe fled and went into hiding. He was arrested in January 1945 after a former mistress betrayed him. Nebe was sentenced to death by the [[People's Court (Germany)|People's Court]] on 2 March and, according to official records, was executed in Berlin at [[Plötzensee Prison]] on 21 March 1945 by being hanged from a meat hook, in accordance with Hitler's order that the bomb plotters were to be "hanged like cattle".{{sfn|Zentner|Bedürftig|1997|p=641}}{{sfn|Shirer|1960|p=1071}}