Hans Hauck
Hans Hauck (1920–2003) was an
Hans was born in
railway. During 1935 or 1936 Hauck was sterilised under the Nazi racial purity measures
.
In 1939 he was declared "unworthy" to join the Army when he went through the conscription process. Following a suicide attempt in 1941, Hauck joined the Wehrmacht the following year. He attributed his survival of the Nazi regime to his service in the Army. He made "Private first Class" within five months. Hauck was wounded five times, and captured by the Red Army in 1945 and released in 1949.
See also
- Germanwomen.
References
- Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and memory in the Third Reich by Tina Campt, University of Michigan Press, 2005