Daily Factoids

Kurt Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord

Kurt Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, Army Colonel General, born September 26, 1878 in Hinrichshagen/Mecklenburg, winner of the Iron Cross 1st Class in World War I, Chief of the Army Command of the Reichswehr, resigned in 1934, died of cancer on April 24, 1943 in Berlin-Dahlem, said of the Reichswehr (German Army) and Hitler in 1930: “The Reichswehr will not allow Hitler to come to power.”  (2000 Quotations from Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich)

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Hans Bauer

Hans Baur, Hitler’s personal pilot, born April 24, 1897 in Ampfing bei Mühldorf, World War I fighter ace with 6 victories and the Iron Cross 1st Class, honorary SS-Gruppenführer, winner of the Nazi Golden Party Badge, seriously wounded in the breakout from the Führer bunker and captured in May 1945 and imprisoned for ten years by the Soviets, author of Hitler at My Side, died February 17, 1993 in Herrsching am Ammersee, buried in Munich’s Westfriedhof, on Eva Braun:

“She was just an unfortunate human being like so many others who have been drawn to the side of a once-powerful man by love and who have been voluntarily led to their destruction by that love when his luck turned.”   (2000 Quotations from Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich)