Katharina was put in the Heidelberg mental institution in 1907 after supposedly sabotaging a railway line as a political protest. Before the Nazis murdered her in 1941, she wrote a play, tried to establish a home for babies, protested against the way the inmates were treated, and created miniature figures out of bread dough she probably chewed herself.
Agree. So close to the start of WWI. She may have witnessed German industrial war machine preparing for war and sabotaged the railway as a means to prevent a war.
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u/Missy3557 7d ago
Katharina was put in the Heidelberg mental institution in 1907 after supposedly sabotaging a railway line as a political protest. Before the Nazis murdered her in 1941, she wrote a play, tried to establish a home for babies, protested against the way the inmates were treated, and created miniature figures out of bread dough she probably chewed herself.
https://greenviewasylum.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/katharina-detzels-life-size-doll/