Helmut Beck-Broichsitter
| Helmut Beck-Broichsitter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 August 1914 |
| Died | 25 September 2000 (aged 86) |
| Allegiance |  Nazi Germany |
| Service/branch | Army |
| Years of service | 1935–45 |
| Rank | Major |
| Unit | Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Awards | Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross |
Helmut Beck-Broichsitter (30 August 1914 – 25 September 2000) was an officer in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Following the war, Beck-Broichsitter was involved in several neo-Nazi movements.
Beck-Broichsitter became a member of the Nazi Party in 1931, of the Sturmabteilung in 1932 and of the police in 1939. In the years till 1944 he served in Feldgendarmerie units and combated partisans behind the lines.[1]
After the war Beck-Broichsitter founded the "Bruderschaft" (Fraternity) in 1949 of former officers of the Wehrmacht.[2] The ideological basis of the brotherhood laid in the National Socialist and conservative revolutionary ideology of the Weimar time. Beck-Broichsitter focus was in a front against Bolshevism.[3] Accused of spying for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution he resigned from leadership.[4] He later joined the openly Nazi orientated Socialist Reich Party.[5]
Awards[edit]
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 4 September 1940 as Oberleutnant and Chef of 14.(Panzer-Jäger)/Infanterie-Regiment "Großdeutschland"[6]
References[edit]
Citations[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- Breitman, Richard and Goda, Norman J. W. (2010). Hitler's shadow: Nazi war criminals, U.S. intelligence, and the Cold War. DIANE Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4379-4429-7.
- Brunner, Bernhard (2004). Der Frankreich-Komplex: die nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen in Frankreich und die Justiz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. (in German). Wallstein. ISBN 3-89244-693-8.
- Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
- Searle, Alaric (2003). Wehrmacht Generals, West German Society, and the Debate on Rearmament, 1949–1959. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0-275-97968-3.
External links[edit]
- Beate Baldow, Episode oder Gefahr? Die Naumann-Affäre. Diss. phil. FU Berlin 2012, passim about Beck-Broichsitter and his "brotherhood" of old Nazis (Deutsche Bruderschaft) in post-war times (in German)
