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Hitler's Old Comrades
Hitler's Old Comrades
" The right to believe is the right of those who don't know "
Re: Hitler's Old Comrades
That's Helmut Klotz. He was a sailor during WWI who later quit the NSDAP to join with SPD. He wrote a few books and helped leak the Roehm "love letters" to the press. Hitler eventually tracked him down in Paris...he was executed in 1943.
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Hello,
“Deutscher Tag der NSDAP” in Hof, 15-16.09.1923. L-R: Johann Schelshorn (driving), Hitler, Ulrich Graf, Dr. Helmuth Klotz, Walter Buch, and Christian Weber. Heinrich Hoffmann photo. Of interest, Dr. Klotz fell out with Hitler and fled to France in 1933. He was arrested by the GFP on 8.7.1940 and was executed on 3.2.1943.
Source: https://troyfromportmacquarie.tumblr.com/
About Dr. Helmuth Klotz:
Dr. HELMUTH KLOTZ
October 30, 1894 - February 03, 1943
The writer Dr. Helmuth Klotz joined the Nazi Party NSDAP as early as 1922, but was expelled at the end of 1924, and went on to work in the republican defense league Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and the SPD in the early 1930s. From 1930 to 1933, he was the editor of Antifaschistische Korrespondenz, then escaping Germany via Prague to Paris, where he made contact with the KPD. Klotz was an active supporter of the People’s Front and advised the republican government during the Spanish Civil War. He was arrested by the Gestapo in July 1940 after France’s defeat, and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The People’s Court sentenced Dr. Helmut Klotz to death on November 27, 1942. He was murdered in Berlin-Plötzensee on February 3, 1943.
Source: http://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/recess/biog ... no_cache=1
wiki: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_Klotz_(Publizist)
Comrade yes, but afterwards opponent.
regards
Darko
“Deutscher Tag der NSDAP” in Hof, 15-16.09.1923. L-R: Johann Schelshorn (driving), Hitler, Ulrich Graf, Dr. Helmuth Klotz, Walter Buch, and Christian Weber. Heinrich Hoffmann photo. Of interest, Dr. Klotz fell out with Hitler and fled to France in 1933. He was arrested by the GFP on 8.7.1940 and was executed on 3.2.1943.
Source: https://troyfromportmacquarie.tumblr.com/
About Dr. Helmuth Klotz:
Dr. HELMUTH KLOTZ
October 30, 1894 - February 03, 1943
The writer Dr. Helmuth Klotz joined the Nazi Party NSDAP as early as 1922, but was expelled at the end of 1924, and went on to work in the republican defense league Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and the SPD in the early 1930s. From 1930 to 1933, he was the editor of Antifaschistische Korrespondenz, then escaping Germany via Prague to Paris, where he made contact with the KPD. Klotz was an active supporter of the People’s Front and advised the republican government during the Spanish Civil War. He was arrested by the Gestapo in July 1940 after France’s defeat, and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The People’s Court sentenced Dr. Helmut Klotz to death on November 27, 1942. He was murdered in Berlin-Plötzensee on February 3, 1943.
Source: http://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/recess/biog ... no_cache=1
wiki: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_Klotz_(Publizist)
Comrade yes, but afterwards opponent.
regards
Darko
Re: Hitler's Old Comrades
Very interesting.
Thanks to both.
Thanks to both.
" The right to believe is the right of those who don't know "
Re: Hitler's Old Comrades
Yes; very interesting. Thank you taking the time and effort to expand the discussion and my knowledge. 
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I wonder who the guy was between Hitler and the driver. Seems to have been scratched out.