Mohnke hitler biography

Hitler Diaries

Forged journals purportedly by Adolf Hitler

The Hitler Diaries (Hitler-Tagebücher) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche Marks (£2.3 million or $3.7 million) by the West German news magazine Stern, which sold serialisation rights to several news organisations. One of the publications involved was The Sunday Times, who asked their independent director, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, to authenticate the diaries; he did so, pronouncing them genuine. At the press conference to announce the publication, Trevor-Roper announced that on reflection he had changed his mind, and other historians also raised questions concerning their validity. Rigorous forensic analysis, which had not been performed previously, quickly confirmed that the diaries were fakes.

Kujau, born and raised in East Germany, had a history of petty crime and deception. In the mid-1970s he began selling Nazi memorabilia which

Chapter 8 LUDWIG STUMPFEGGER (1910–45) A Career at the Interface of Hitler, Himmler, and Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

Kaiser, Stephanie and Schmidt, Mathias. "Chapter 8 LUDWIG STUMPFEGGER (1910–45) A Career at the Interface of Hitler, Himmler, and Ravensbrück Concentration Camp". Recognizing the Past in the Present: New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust, edited by Sabine Hildebrandt, Miriam Offer and Michael A. Grodin, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2020, pp. 154-171. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207859-012

Kaiser, S. & Schmidt, M. (2020). Chapter 8 LUDWIG STUMPFEGGER (1910–45) A Career at the Interface of Hitler, Himmler, and Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. In S. Hildebrandt, M. Offer & M. Grodin (Ed.), Recognizing the Past in the Present: New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust (pp. 154-171). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207859-012

Kaiser, S. and Schmidt, M. 2020. Chapter 8 LUDWIG STUMPFEGGER (1910–45) A Career at the Interface of Hitler, Himmler, and Ravensbrück Concentration Cam

Mohnke, Wilhelm (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:
March 15th, 1911 (Lübeck, Germany)
Date of death:
August 6th, 2001 (Barsbüttel/Hamburg, Germany)
Service number:
SS-Nr.: 15.541 // NSDAP-Nr.: 649.684
Nationality:
German

Biography

Promotions:
01.11.1931: SS-Anwärter
16.11.1931: SS-Mann
05.03.1932: SS-Scharführer
09.03.1933: SS-Truppführer
28.06.1933: SS-Sturmführer
01.10.1933: SS-Sturmhauptführer
01.09.1940: SS-Sturmbannführer
21.06.1943: SS-Obersturmbannführer
21.06.1944: SS-Standartenführer
04.11.1944: SS-Oberführer
30.01.1945: SS-Brigadeführer

Career:
01.09.1931: entered the NSDAP
01.11.1931: entered the SS, SS-Trupp Lübeck, SS-Standarte 4, Altona
00.01.1932: SS-Mann, 1. Sturm, I. Sturmbann, SS-Standarte 22
17.03.1933: SS-Truppführer, SS-Stabswache Berlin
02.08.1933-07.10.1933: SS-Sturmführer, Chef, 2. Sturm, Sonderkommando Berlin
07.10.1933: SS-Hstuf, Chef, 3. Sturm, II. Sturmbann, LAH
13.04.1934: SS-Hstuf, Chef, 2. Sturm, II. Sturmbann, LAH
00.10.1934: SS-Hstuf, Chef, 5. Sturm, I. Sturmbann, LAH
00.09.1939: SS-Hstuf, Chef, 5. Kompanie, I. Bataill

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