Helmut Beck-Broichsitter
Helmut Beck-Broichsitter | |
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| Born | 30 August 1914 |
| Died | 25 September 2000 (aged 86) |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Nazi Party Socialist Reich Party |
| Awards | Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross |
Helmut Beck-Broichsitter (30 August 1914 – 25 September 2000) was a German
neo-Nazi
movements.
Career
Beck-Broichsitter became a member of the
Knights Cross of the Iron Cross for his service as a company commander in the French campaign[1]
After the war Beck-Broichsitter founded the "Bruderschaft" (
Bolshevism.[3] Accused of spying for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, he resigned from the leadership.[4] In 1951, Beck-Broichsitter helped found the Freikorps Deutschland, a Neo-Nazi paramilitary. The organization managed to train roughly 2,000 men, but was unable to obtain weapons to overthrow the government. On 10 February 1953, the West German government banned the Freikorps Deutschland and had four of its leaders, including Beck-Broichsitter, arrested for plotting against the government. Beck-Broichsitter was released from custody the following month, and the charges against him were later dropped. He went on to join the openly Nazi-orientated Socialist Reich Party.[5]
Awards
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 4 September 1940 as Oberleutnant and Chef of 14.(Panzer-Jäger)/Infanterie-Regiment "Großdeutschland"[6]
References
- Breitman, Richard and ISBN 978-1-4379-4429-7.
- Brunner, Bernhard (2004). Der Frankreich-Komplex: die nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen in Frankreich und die Justiz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. (in German). Wallstein. ISBN 3-89244-693-8.
- ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
- Searle, Alaric (2003). Wehrmacht Generals, West German Society, and the Debate on Rearmament, 1949–1959. Westport, CT: ISBN 978-0-275-97968-3.
External links
- Beate Baldow, Episode oder Gefahr? Die FU Berlin2012, passim about Beck-Broichsitter and his "brotherhood" of old Nazis (Deutsche Bruderschaft) in post-war times (in German)
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