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Heinrich Hitler (nickname Heinz) (born
March 14, 1920,[1]died 1942) was the son
of Alois
Hitler, Jr. and his second wife Hedwig Heidemann and the nephew
of German chancellor Adolf Hitler. When World War II began, he joined the Wehrmacht and served on the
eastern front, where he
was captured and died in prison in 1942.
Unlike his half-brother William Patrick Hitler, Heinz
was a Nazi. He
attended an elite Nazi military academy, the National
Political Institutes of Education (Napola) in Ballenstedt/Saxony-Anhalt[2]. Aspiring to be
an officer, Heinz joined the Wehrmacht as a signals NCO with the
23rd Potsdamer Artillery Regiment in 1941, and he participated in
the invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation
Barbarossa. On January 10, 1942, he was captured by Soviet
forces and sent to the Moscow
military prison Butyrka, where he died, aged 21, after
several months of interrogation and torture. [3]
References
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Bibliography
- "De jeugd van Adolf Hitler 1889-1985 en zijn familie en
voorouders" by Marc Vermeeren. Soesterberg, 2007, 420 blz.
Uitgeverij Aspekt, ISBN 90-5911-606-2
- Oliver Halmburger und Thomas Staehler: Familie Hitler. Im
Schatten des Diktators. Dokumentarfilm. Unter Mitarbeit von
Timothy Ryback u. Florian Beierl. München: Oliver Halmburger
Loopfilm GmBH u. Mainz: ZDF-History 2005.
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