Wilfred von Oven
Wilfred von Oven (4 May 1912 – 13 June 2008) was a Bolivian–German journalist, publicist and civil servant who served as the Press
Biography
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Wilfred von Oven was born in
In a German TV documentary on the "German Resistance", Oven described the events of the 20 July plot which he witnessed. On the afternoon in question the Propaganda Ministry on the Wilhelmstrasse, with Goebbels inside, was surrounded by disloyal troops. Goebbels ordered Oven to discover whether escape was possible. He found they were trapped but reported that the telephone system was still working, an oversight by the plotters which assisted in their downfall.[citation needed]
At the capitulation in 1945 Oven went into hiding under an assumed name to escape Allied internment:
In his book Auschwitz: The Nazis and The 'Final Solution', Laurence Rees discusses an interview he conducted with Oven. He was asked if he could sum up his experience of the Third Reich in one word, what would it be, to which Oven responded: "Paradise".[citation needed]
Oven died in Buenos Aires, Argentina at 13 June 2008, aged 96.[citation needed]
References
- ISBN 978-1-78378-245-1.
Literature
- Wilfred von Oven: Mit ruhig festem Schritt – Aus der Geschichte der SA, 1998.
External links
- Profile, das-erste.de. Accessed 9 January 2024.(in German)
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