Vera Brühne

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Vera Brühne (born 6 February 1910 in Essen, † 17 April 2001 in Munich) got famous throughout Germany as a victim of miscarriage of justice. In 1961/62, she was convicted, together with Johann Ferbach, of having murdered the physician Otto Praun and his lover. Ulrich Sonnemann considered the case as a new Dreyfus affair.^[1] In 1979 she has been pardoned by Bavarian governor Franz Josef Strauss.^[2]

External links

Vera Brühne at the Internet Movie Database
Literature by and about Vera Brühne in the German National Library catalogue
Lebenslänglich für Vera Brühne. Deutsche Welle.
Der Tod kam nicht um 19.45 Uhr. In: Der Spiegel, 1973, n. 39.
Die wahrhaftige Lügnerin. In: Die Zeit, n. 22/2001.
Film Documentation „Die großen Kriminalfälle: Lebenslänglich für Vera Brühne“, by Michael Gramberg, WDR, May 11, 2000.

References

↑ SONNEMANN, U. Der bundesdeutsche Dreyfus-Skandal: Rechtsbruch und Denkverzicht in der zehn Jahre alten Justizsache Brühne-Ferbach. 1970.
↑ So war's 1962. Der Fall Vera Brühne (www.wdr.de)

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Name	Bruhne, Vera
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Date of birth	1910
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Date of death	2001
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