Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (1889-1968) | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Name: Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (1889-1968)

Historical Note: <span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A general of the German Second Parachute Division in the Second World War. He was a decorated Nazi-General who eventually went to prison for his war crimes, only to escape seven years later as an extremist National Socialist. He wrote an autobiography entitled Vom Schiffsjungen zum Fallschirmjaegergeneral (From the ship's boy to paratroopers General) in 1943. The book follows his journey from being a ship’s boy when he joined the German Imperial Navy in 1905 to his transition to the Reichswehr during the Weimar Republic period. He continued to serve in the new Wehrmacht during the Third Reich, where he received the most accolades.</span>

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