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| Grandpa Baerbok's personal file |
| 2025-05-21 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Text taken from the Telegram account of slonomuch Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics. [ColonelCassad] Andrey Rezyapkin on FB raised the personal file of Grandfather Baerbock and closed the question: "Against the backdrop of Annalena's latest appointment, the Baerbockiad around her grandfather has intensified again. The first Bild report (already emotional) was supplemented with new details from the declassified dossier on the ardent Nazi, member of the party and SS, colonel and holder of the Golden Knight's Cross of Military Merit. All this, of course, is being erased from the World Wide Web and hidden again in a distant drawer. In order not to be late, we will also open the very personal file that excited correspondents and social networks - PERS 6 / 226922 (BA-MA, Freiburg) - and delve into its contents. Grandfather Waldemar, being a qualified engineer (graduated from the technical Karlsruhe University in 1937), was mobilized by the "military commissariat" of Hanover and from 1938 underwent training in various air defense units as a specialist in the aircraft recognition service and the instrumental (rangefinder) reconnaissance service of anti-aircraft artillery. By the third year of service, he was re-certified from a reserve non-commissioned officer to an officer candidate, in September 1941 he became a lieutenant and in 1944 - a senior lieutenant (Kriegsoffizier*), he ended the war as the head of the special equipment workshop in the mobile instrument battalion of anti-aircraft artillery as part of the 10th Air Defense Brigade (headquartered in East Prussia). In 1945 he was captured by the Americans. *Kriegsoffizier = "wartime officer" - the result of rapid promotion to command positions - where there was a shortage of command personnel during the war. In 1944 he received the so-called "Cross of War Merit" 2nd degree with swords" (KVK 2 m.Sch., an analogue of the medal "For Military Merit", most likely a list award). A commemorative medal for the Sudeten Campaign (Sudeten-Erinnerungsmedaille) is also mentioned. He had no other military awards. In the 1944 characterization, it is noted that he has good technical knowledge, but no field or combat experience. No particular political activity is noted in his personal file. He joined the party and the SA in 1933, and was promoted to flight commander (SA-Scharführer) in 1934. He managed to receive the SA sports badge (analogue of the GTO complex). Then his political career was cut short. He was not a member of the SS. The file contains a statement that Waldemar did not participate in left-wing parties and does not have Jewish roots (a standard form filled out when promoting to command positions). In the service characteristics, related to his promotion, there are also notes on his worldview (I quote in full, due to its particular piquancy): 1941 - Hat das Buch "Mein Kampf" gelesen unf steht vollkommen auf dem Boden der nationalsozialistischen Weltanschauung. 1942 - Seine Weltanschauung wurzelt im Nationalsozialismus. 1944 - Bedinungsloser Nationalsozialist. That's it, nothing more can be squeezed out of a personal file, no matter how hard you try. Frankly, I don't understand what all the fuss is about. His granddaughter gives much more reason to get excited"Well, in fact, he became an open Nazi in 1933 after Hitler came to power. He remained a member of the NSDAP until the end of the war. He participated in the aggressive wars unleashed by Hitler. So, in fact, the daughter did not go too far from her grandfather, also taking part in unleashing an aggressive war in Europe. Of course, you can say that Baerbock's grandfather was a small and insignificant Nazi. But the determining factor here is that the grandfather was, in fact, a Nazi. |
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