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词条 Otto Ernst Remer
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Military career

     20 July 1944 Plot 

  3. Post-war life and political activities

  4. Death

  5. Awards

  6. References

     Citations  Bibliography 

  7. External links

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}}Otto-Ernst Remer (18 August 1912 – 4 October 1997) was a German soldier in World War 2 who played a minor role in stopping the "20 July plot" in 1944 against Adolf Hitler. In his later years he became a politician and far right activist.[1] He co-founded the Socialist Reich Party in West Germany in the 1950's, and is considered an influential figure in post-war neo-Fascist politics in Germany.[1]

Early life

Otto Ernest Remer was born at Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, in the German Empire on 18 October 1912. He attended a military academy and was commissioned as an officer in the German Army 1932 at the age of 20, a few months before Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany, initiating a series of laws in the Weimar Republic, which made him the sole leader in the country.[1]

Military career

Remer took part in the Invasion of Poland in 1939, the Balkans Campaign, and Operation Barbarossa - to invasion by the III Reich of the Soviet Union. In April 1942, he was posted to the Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland.

In February 1943, he commanded a battalion in the Großdeutschland Division (GD), after the Infantry Regiment GD was reformed into a division. His troops covered the withdrawal of a Waffen-SS tank corps during the Third Battle of Kharkov. He was awarded the Knight's Cross for his service as battalion commander and, in November 1943, he was awarded the Oak leaves to the Knight's Cross, which was presented by Adolf Hitler personally.[2]

20 July 1944 Plot

In March 1944 Remer was appointed as the commanding officer of the Wachbataillon Großdeutschland. On 20 July 1944 an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler by means of a bomb-attack at the "Wolf's Lair" in East Prussia, carried out by Wehrmacht officers attempting to stage a coup d'etat. Remer, in Berlin first heard news of it from members of the Nazi Party, and waited for official word of Hitler's fate.

In the evening of 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg, the officer who had carried out the attack upon Hitler arrived back in Berlin, and, believing that he had succeeded in killing him, issued orders to Remer to arrest several senior Nazi Government officials, claiming that they were part of a coup. Upon being ordered by General Paul von Hase to arrest Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, Remer went to Goebbels' office to do so. However, on arrival Remer was met by Goebbels' protestations that Hitler was still alive, and had issued counter-orders to those Remer was enforcing. When Remer asked for proof, Goebbels picked up the phone and asked to be put through to Hitler at the "Wolf's Lair", then handed him the telephone receiver, upon which Remer heard Hitler's voice, ordering him to crush the plot in Berlin with the troops under his command. Remer with this realised that he had been taking orders from the mutineers, and returning with his troops to the Berlin Military Headquarters, Bendlerblock, he arrested the plotters, including Stauffenberg. General Friedrich Fromm had the plotters immediately summarily executed by firing squad, despite Remer protestations that he had been told to keep the plotters alive if possible pending further orders from Hitler, who was returning to Berlin. (General Fromm himself would subsequently be executed by firing squad upon Hitler's orders on his return). That same night Remer was promoted two ranks to Oberst (Colonel).

For the rest of the war, Remer served with the Führerbegleitbrigade (FBB), a field unit formed from a Grossdeutschland cadre, in East Prussia, and during the Ardennes Offensive. He was captured by the United States Army towards the end of the war, and remained an prisoner of war until 1947.

Post-war life and political activities

After his release from allied captivity, Remer, who had not previously associated himself politically with National Socialism during the war, became involved in West German post-war politics. He set up a political organization entitled the Socialist Reich Party in 1950, which was promptly banned in 1952 for making inflammatory political statements, but not before it had gathered 360,000 supporters in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, and won 16 seats in the state parliament. The Socialist Reich Party also won eight seats in the Parliament of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. The party had received some financing from the Soviet Union,[1] and worked with the Communist Party of Germany, whose aim was the destabilisation of the West Germany state. Among the campaigning themes of the Socialist Reich Party was that Holocaust had been an allied propaganda invention, and it accused the United States of building fake gas chambers and producing bogus news-film footage about concentration camps,[3] that the politics of the Allied-powers created West German state were merely a front for American domination,[7] and that West Germany's puppet status of the United States should be opposed.[1]

With the party banned Remer faced criminal charges from the West German Government as being engaged in activity attempting to re-establish a neo-Nazi political movement. On the issuing of an arrest warrant for him on these charges, he went into hiding at a chalet belonging to Countess Faber-Castell, an early supporter of the Socialist Reich Party, before fleeing subsequently to Egypt.[4] There, he served as an advisor to Gamal Abdel Nasser, and worked with other expatriate Germans assisting Arab states with the development of their armed forces.[1] He was a frequent acquaintance of Johannes von Leers.[4] In 1956, Remer was reported to be in Damascus, engaging in the arms trade, the Algerian National Liberation Front was one of his customers.[1]

He returned to West Germany in the 1980s, once more involving himself in politics with the setting up of an organization entitled the "German Freedom Movement" (G.F.M.), which advocated the reunification of East and West Germany, and the removal of NATO military forces from West German soil. The G.F.M. was an umbrella organisation for multiple underground Neo-Nazi splinter-groups of varying descriptions, and Remer used it to influence a younger generation of post-war born Germans.[1]

From 1991 to 1994, Remer published a political news-sheet entitled the Remer-Depesche, containing his political philosophy. Its content led to a court case where he was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment in October 1992 for incitement of racial hatred by writing and publishing a series of articles stating that the Holocaust was a myth. (The political impact of the case upon the Government is discussed in Searle's Wehrmacht Generals). Remer filed numerous appeals against his conviction, however his complaint against alleged violations of fairness of trial and freedom of speech was unanimously rejected, ultimately by the European Commission on Human Rights, to which he had taken his case.[5] In February 1994 he fled to Spain to avoid the imprisonment sentence having exhausted all means of appeal in the newly united Federal German Republic. From there he supported the activities internationally of people publicly questioning the historical veracity of the Holocaust, such as Fred Leuchter and Germar Rudolf. The High Court of Spain ruled against requests made by the German Government for his extradition back to Germany for imprisonment, stating that he had not committed any crimes under the Spanish law.

A fellow veteran of the Grossdeutschland Division had the following to say about his former commanding officer: "No judgment will be made here as to whether his decision on 20 July was right or wrong. But the consequences of his decision were so terrible,... that we old soldiers had expected that a man to whom destiny gave such a burden to carry until the end of his life would recognise this, and would thereafter live quietly and in seclusion. We, his former comrades, lack any sympathy for the fact that Herr Remer fails to summon up this attitude of self-effacement".[6]

Death

Remer died at Marbella in Southern Spain on 4 October 1997, at the age of 85.

Awards

  • Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (20 May 1940) & 1st Class (12 June 1940)[7]
  • German Cross in Gold on 29 August 1942 as Hauptmann in IV./Infanterie-Regiment "Großdeutschland"[8]
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
    • Knight's Cross on 18 May 1943 as Major and commander of I./Grenadier-Regiment "Großdeutschland"[9]
    • 325th Oak Leaves on 12 November 1943 as Major and commander of the I.(gepanzert)/Grenadier-Regiment (motorized) "Großdeutschland"[10]

References

Citations

1. ^Atkins 2004, pp. 273–274.
2. ^The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer, p. 1063 ff. 1960.
3. ^Goodrick-Clarke 1998, p. 170.
4. ^Lee 2000, pp. 73, 134, 151.
5. ^ECmHR admissibility decisionon the application 25096/94
6. ^Baigent, Michael and Leigh, Richard. 1994. Secret Germany. London, New York: The Penguin Group.
7. ^Thomas 1998, p. 195.
8. ^Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 373.
9. ^Fellgiebel 2000, p. 355.
10. ^Fellgiebel 2000, p. 74.

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External links

  • [https://archive.org/details/GermanysNewNazis Germany's New Nazis 1951 pamphlet about Otto Ernst Remer and other neo--nazis]
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