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Sunday, March 31, 2024

Hans-Ulrich Rudel Funeral

22 December 1982: The funeral of Hans-Ulrich Rudel, the only Ritterkreuzträger (Knight's Cross winner) with Goldenem Eichenlaub (golden oak leaves) and a member of the right-wing radical DRP, took place amidst a group of old and young fans of Adolf Hitler. Several of his mourners saluted with the "Heil Hitler". Photo by Klaus Rose.

Gunzenhausen, West Germany -- Mourners at the funeral of Nazi Germany's most honored bomber pilot Wednesday (22 December 1982) sang Nazi songs and raised their arms in the Nazi salute as he was buried.

Hans-Ulrich Rudel, who died Monday (18 December 1982) at the age of 66, was awarded Nazi Germany's highest military honor, a special form of the Iron Cross created specifically for him.

He later won notoriety after World War II for his pro-Nazi writings and speeches and praise of Adolf Hitler.

Some 2,000 people attended his funeral, many of them joining in the banned, pro-Nazi verses of the German national anthem 'Deutschland Uber Alles' and raising their outstretched right arms in the Nazi salute, witnesses said.

World War II veterans and women were among those who joined in the song and raised their arms.

The West German air force refused to send a representative to the funeral near Gunzenhausen south of Nuremberg, but West German Phantom fighter planes swooped low over the cemetery before and during the burial service making the shape of a cross in the sky, witnesses said.

Known as the 'Eagle of the Russian Front,' Rudel made 2,530 raids against the Soviet Union in his Stuka dive-bomber.

He is credited with destroying 519 Soviet tanks and 800 combat vehicles, and sinking or damaging three Russian warships and 70 landing vessels.

He escaped serious injury until 1945, when he lost a leg in combat. He spent a year as a prisoner of the American and British armies.

Rudel went to Argentina after the war where he reportedly played a role in building up the Argentine air force.

When he returned to West Germany he provoked criticism by his writings and speeches extolling Hitler and the war. One of his books was banned for sale to young people because authorities considered it dangerous.

The funeral of Rudel took place amidst a group of old and young fans of Adolf Hitler. Hans-Ulrich Rudel was the only bearer of the Knight's Cross with golden oak leaves and supporter of the right-wing DRP. Several of his mourners saluted with the "Heil Hitler". Photo by Klaus Rose.

Several mourners, like this man in the leather coat, said goodbye at the grave with the Hitler salute. On December 22, 1982, former Luftwaffe Oberst Hans-Ulrich Rudel, the most decorated soldier in the Wehrmacht, was buried in the Dornhausen cemetery near Gunzenhausen. Among the approximately 2,000 mourners were delegations from right-wing extremist groups and parties from Germany, Holland and Belgium. Photo by Karl Staedele.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Hans-Ulrich Rudel at a DRP Meeting

Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916-1982), a former Oberst in the German Luftwaffe, attends a meeting of the DRP (Deutsche Reichspartei) in the Rotmain Hall, Bayreuth, 2nd September 1953. He is accompanied by his mother. Rudel was forbidden to address the meeting by the Bavarian Ministry for the Interior, but others were permitted to read portions of his speech to the assembly.

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Sunday, March 17, 2024

Hans-Ulrich Rudel as a Member of Naumann Circle

This picture was taken on 8 August 1953 and it shows the former State Secretary in the Goebbels Ministry, Dr. Werner Naumann, and the retired Luftwaffe Stuka pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel (right). Rudel just came from Argentina to compete in the elections in Germany. He is attempting to become a candidate of the SRP party. He gave an election speech in Lüneburg. After Germany's defeat, Dr. Naumann lived under an assumed name for five years and worked as a farm worker, later completing an apprenticeship as a mason. He reemerged in early 1950 after an amnesty law had taken effect, and became the manager of an import-export company in Düsseldorf. Naumann soon began making contact with other former Nazi functionaries politically active on the far-right, including Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Ernst Achenbach, Artur Axmann, Otto Skorzeny and many others. This group came to be known as the "Naumann Circle" (Naumann-Kreis) or the Gauleiter Circle. They infiltrated the Free Democratic Party for a period of about two years. Naumann, together with six co-conspirators, was arrested by the British Army on 15 January 1953 for being the leader of a Neo-Nazi group that attempted to infiltrate West German political parties. Naumann was turned over to the German authorities on 1 April and, after over six months in custody, was released from pre-trial detention on 28 July 1953 by a decision of the Federal Constitutional Court at Karlsruhe. On 5 August 1953, barely a week after his release, Naumann declared his intention to run for a seat in the Bundestag as a candidate of the right-wing Deutsche Reichspartei (DRP), which had benefited heavily from the banning of the Socialist Reich Party the previous year. However, on 23 August, just two weeks before the election, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia, acting as a denazification tribunal, classified him as a Category II offender. As such, he was prohibited from belonging to any political party, engaging in any political activity, holding any political office, or working as an author, journalist or broadcaster for a period of five years. His Bundestag candidacy was thus abruptly ended.

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