SS-Gruppenführer (Lieutenant General) Hans Baur (19 June 1897 – 17 February 1993) was German politician Adolf Hitler's pilot during his political campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s. Baur was later Hitler's personal pilot and leader of the "Reichsregierung" squadron. Captured by the Soviets at the end of World War II in Europe, he endured ten years of imprisonment in the USSR before being released on 10 October 1955 to the French who imprisoned Baur until 1957. Baur died in Herrsching, Bavaria in 1993.
Johann "Hans" Peter Baur was born in Ampfing in Bavaria and educated at the Erasmus-Grasser-Gymnasium in Sendling-Westpark, Munich.
Baur was called up to the Imperial German Army in 1915, and trained in field artillery at the airfield in Augsburg. He then joined the Luftstreitkräfte (air force) as an artillery spotter. During the war he claimed 6 victories, with 3 additionally unconfirmed. During one flight, Baur's aircraft experienced engine failure and was forced to descend, but he was able to restart the engine. For his victories, Baur was awarded the Iron Cross first class for bravery.
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Plot: In 1945, The Third Reich is in its death throes with the Allies relentlessly attacking the capital city of Berlin. Its Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, retreats into his fortified bunker in Berlin with his senior staff. There, gripped with both delusions of grandeur and despair, Hitler commands a hopeless last stand with resources existing largely in his own mind. While resisting the pleas of rational minions like Albert Speer, basic reality finally comes unavoidable. With that, Hitler and his fanatical fellows prepare for their own end even as their grandiose dreams are becoming a smoking ruin above.
Keywords: 1940s, anger, anti-semitism, based-on-book, berlin-germany, betrayal, bunker, cyanide, cyanide-capsule, dead-children