In February 1945 high-ranking friends managed, possibly by a bribe, to get his execution put off at the last moment and get him transferred to Fort Zinna, the Wehrmacht prison in Torgau. He was caught and sentenced by the Nazi Volksgerichtshof ("People's Court") to death by hanging. In 1945 Keller organized an anti-Nazi resistance group in Berlin which briefly ran a pirate radio station and which planned a rather foolhardy attempt on Hitler's life. While working as a senior staff member in Albert Speer's Ministry of Armaments, he saved the lives of many Jews. In 1933 he became a Doctor of Jurisprudence. He studied engineering and medicine, and then jurisprudence, in Berlin, Rostock, Zürich and Jena. Werner Keller (13 August 1909 in Gut Nutha, Anhalt – 29 February 1980 in Ascona) was a German civil servant, journalist, nonfiction author and anti-Nazi resistance fighter.
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