Luftwaffenhelfer (redirect from Flakhelfer)
A Luftwaffenhelfer, also commonly known as a Flakhelfer, was any member of the auxiliary staff of the German Luftwaffe during World War II. Such terms...
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Hitler Youth generation (redirect from Flakhelfer generation)
several terms used in social historians and sociologists similar to the Flakhelfer generation or Forty-fivers which may differ slightly in scope. It is conventionally...
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commonly served in auxiliary roles in the Luftwaffe and were known as flakhelfer, from luftwaffenhelfer. In anticipation of the possible Allied invasion...
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months and generally on the greenest of troops: new replacements, teenage Flakhelfer, and Hitlerjugend and Volkssturm militia. Field grey double-breasted great...
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that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS, and not only served as a Flakhelfer (anti-aircraft assistant), as he had long claimed. On being asked about...
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Guillaume, and he joined in March 1934. Guillaume was conscripted as a Flakhelfer in 1944. On January 17, 1944, Guillaume applied for admission to the NSDAP...
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there were many more Germans of Grass's generation (also called the "Flakhelfer-Generation") with biographies similar to his. Joseph Ratzinger (later...
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Geburt " [de]) meaning that Kohl, born in 1930, was only involved in the war as a Flakhelfer and escaped the possibility of involvement in Nazi atrocities by virtue...
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thousand German women, along with young boys and sometimes girls (as Flakhelfer), served in Luftwaffe artillery units; their flak shot down thousands...
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(today Biskupiec, Poland). At the end of World War II he served as a Flakhelfer. Mack joined the Bundesgrenzschutz in 1952 and the Bundeswehr tank troops...
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(Strafeinheit) of the organization. In early 1945 he was drafted into the Flakhelfer, the youth auxiliary of the Luftwaffe, serving in a special unit that...
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Handke and a study of the greatest Nazi cover-up in post-war Germany, "Die Flakhelfer", which will be published in English in 2014. Herwig is also known as...
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widely publicized. After his 1945 wartime Abitur, Sedlmayr served as a Flakhelfer towards the end of World War II. His acting career began with minor roles...
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be remembered as comparable to the death march. Grass was among the "Flakhelfer generation", those Germans under the Third Reich who were too young to...
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child of Horst and Gertrude (née Arendt) Wunderlich. After a time as Flakhelfer and a prisoner of war, he moved to his mother in Eutin, graduated from...
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Toward the end of his writing career, he interviewed aging Germans, former Flakhelfer, about their role in the Third Reich, returning to his focus on how individuals...
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1957 to form a Schuttberg. On 9 August 2018, a monument to two teenage Flakhelfer was unveiled at the cemetery in Degerloch, a municipality of Stuttgart...
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text concerns a group of school classmates sent from Berlin to serve as Flakhelfer directly beside the Auschwitz concentration camp complex during the closing...
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in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Toward the end of World War II, he served as a flakhelfer. In 1947, he began the study of mathematics at the Rheinische...
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to Mecklenburg, where he was drafted into military service as a Navy–Flakhelfer. In 1946 Esch started to study law at the University of Rostock and became...
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thousand German women, along with young boys and sometimes girls (as Flakhelfer), served in Luftwaffe artillery units; their flak shot down thousands...
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soldier during the last week of World War II. The boy was drafted as a Flakhelfer and was a prisoner of war for a short time. The house of his mother in...
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where he was a classmate of Friedrich Karl Flick. He was conscripted as a Flakhelfer in 1943 and to the Wehrmacht in 1944. After World War II he passed his...
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of a pharmacist. On leaving secondary school he was conscripted as a Flakhelfer before, in April 1944, he joined the Nazi Party and served in the Wehrmacht...
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Boleslawiec, Poland) where he attended school. In World War II he became a Flakhelfer of the Luftwaffe but after four months was conscripted to the German Wehrmacht...
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In the last days of the Nazi regime he was a Hitler Youth leader and Flakhelfer. After completing his Abitur, Arndt studied law at the Goethe University...
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