Curated category
German Army personnel of World War I
- Max ErnstMax Ernst died on the 1st of August 1914. That, at least, was how he described it. In his autobiography, he wrote: "On the first of August 1914 M.E. died.
- Martin HeideggerMartin Heidegger was born on the 26th of September 1889 in rural Meßkirch, Baden, the son of a village church sexton. He died in his sleep in Freiburg on the…
- Heinrich HimmlerHeinrich Himmler was reluctant to open his mouth. A British doctor in Lüneburg leaned in to examine it on the 23rd of May 1945, and the prisoner jerked his…
- Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary near the German border. He died by suicide on the 30th of April…
- Adolf HeusingerAdolf Heusinger was standing next to Adolf Hitler when the bomb went off on the 20th of July 1944. The man who planted it, Claus von Stauffenberg, had placed…
- Franz MarcIn 2022, a painting called Die Foxes sold for 42,654,500 pounds, a record for the German artist Franz Marc. He never saw such sums.
- Hermann GöringHermann Göring asked to die by firing squad, the death of a soldier. The Nuremberg court refused him. So on the night before his scheduled hanging in October…
- Joachim von RibbentropJoachim von Ribbentrop was born on the 30th of April 1893 and hanged on the 16th of October 1946, and in the years between those two dates he rose from…
- Erwin RommelErwin Rommel rode into Tripoli on the 12th of February 1941 as commander of a freshly created desert force, the Afrika Korps, with orders to hold a defensive…
- Hermann HothHermann Hoth was sentenced to 15 years in prison in October 1948 for war crimes and crimes against humanity, yet just six years later he walked free on…
- Paul HindemithPaul Hindemith was born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, on the 16th of November 1895, and within two decades he would be playing concertmaster at the Frankfurt…
- Hans SpeidelHans Speidel was the man who answered the phone when Hitler ordered Paris destroyed. On the 26th of August 1944, Alfred Jodl, chief of staff of the German…
- Richard SorgeRichard Sorge arrived in Yokohama on the 6th of September 1933, carrying press credentials from the most prestigious newspaper in Germany and a Nazi Party…