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Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 – 18 December 1982) was a German ground-attack pilot during World War II and a post-war neo-Nazi activist.. The most decorated German pilot of the war and the only recipient of the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds, Rudel was credited with the destruction of 519 tanks, one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft and 150 artillery ...
[157] Later, Bader also wrote the foreword to Hans-Ulrich Rudel's biography Stuka Pilot. Even when it emerged that Rudel was a fervent supporter of the Nazi Party, Bader said that prior knowledge would not have changed his mind about his contribution. [161] In the late 1960s, Bader was interviewed on television, where his comments provoked ...
Rudel had earlier been a leading member of the German Reich Party, and was considered persona non grata by the Ministry of Defense because of his undiminished admiration of Adolf Hitler. He was invited only after an intervention by the opposition's spokesman for Defense, Manfred Wörner , and attended as the last commander of Schlachtgeschwader ...
Although the historian Sönke Neitzel used the same sources when he created the Rudel entry in the Deutsche Biographie (see Deutsche Biographie: Rudel, Hans-Ulrich and Publications at the University of Potsdam), the same sources which the original Wikipedia article also used, the deletions on Wikipedia were enforced. In my opinion, the current ...
Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916–1982), German ground-attack pilot during World War II Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch (1595–1635), Silesian nobleman, fought in the Silesian front of the Thirty Years' War Hans Ulrich Schmied or Uli Schmied (born 1947), retired German rower who specialized in the double sculls
Just, Günther (1990), Hans Ulrich Rudel His Life Story in Words and Photgraphs. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-88740-252-6. On page 130 you see a picture of Oblt Thiede, Oblt Rudel, Hptm Dilley, Oblt Jackel and Hptm Möbus pointing to a sign of 3500. The caption reads "five Stucka officers — 3,500 missions!"
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ODESSA is an American codename (from the German: Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, meaning: Organization of Former SS Members) coined in 1946 to cover Nazi underground escape-plans made at the end of World War II by a group of SS officers with the aim of facilitating secret escape routes, and any directly ensuing arrangements.