Hermann Stieve was professor and the director of the Institute for Anatomy of the Chariteé. He conducted studies on the female reproductive system during his entire academic career. Between the years 1943-45 more and more people were executed in Plötzensee/Berlin through the terror regime, among them a rising number of women, including well remembered resistance fighters. Stieve studied, among other, the effects of stress and psychic trauma on the executed woman's reproductive organs. The victims were brought to the Anatomic Institute of the Chariteé right after their execution in order to remove their reproductive organs for histological examination. Stieve published his histologic and anatomic findings based on those studies which were, for many years later, found to be essential for understanding the function of the female reproductive system. In his publications he always used terms like "sudden strong excitement" to indicate the source of psychic trauma as announcement of pending death to the victims. In spite of accusations to have influenced dates of executions for scientific reasons, after WWII the Russian Military and KGB found him not guilty on any account and thus urged the renown scientist Hermann Stieve to stay with the Anatomic Institute of the Chariteé to represent research and teaching.He died from a stroke in 1952 while serving the Anatomic Institute as director.