ABSTRACT
The Gestapo had established a special guard for people prisoners connected with the plot of July 20. This guard was made up of police officials, who for the most part were in civilian clothes and who had come from those Gestapo quarters that had been bombed. The Gestapo agents used a number of different methods in their attempt to play on a prisoner's nerves. A large number of Gestapo officials had surrounded his castle, but Lehndorff had succeeded in getting out and safely reaching the forests belonging to his estate. The Gestapo, much relieved that he had surrendered, took him first to Koenigsberg and from there to Berlin, where Lehndorff made a second attempt at escape. One would threaten the prisoner and shower him with abuse, the second would talk to him in a soothing manner, urging him to calm down and have a cigarette, the third would then try to appeal to the prisoner's code of honor.
