and called to the People's Court on 11 May 1944 and Judge Roland Freisler sentenced him to death on the same day. Despite many appeals for clemency from academics including from Hanns von Lengerken, Oskar Heinroth, Katharina Heinroth, Ferdinand Sauerbruch and Hans Hass who was solicited by Günter Tembrock, Arndt was executed by guillotine on 26 June 1944 at Zuchthaus Brandenburg-Görden. He was 53 years old. His sister was asked to pay 300 Reichsmark to cover the expenses of the execution apart from 20 cents to cover postage and other costs. Arndt's body was dissected for research by his friend Hermann Stieve. Published works Arndt was the author of nearly 250 scientific publications on systematics, anatomy, the distribution of sponges, helminthology, oceanic fauna, museology, animal toxins, et al. With August Brauer, Fritz Römer and Fritz Schaudinn, he was an editor of . References External links Last Letters 1891 births 1944 deaths People from the Province of Silesia People condemned by Nazi courts German Jews who died in the Holocaust German people executed by Nazi Germany People executed by Nazi Germany by guillotine 20th-century German Jews Converts to Judaism People from Kamienna Góra Scientists active at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin 20th-century German physicians 20th-century German zoologists