Helmut Beck-Broichsitter

Helmut Beck-Broichsitter (30 August 1914 – 25 September 2000) was a German military police officer during World War II. Following the war, Beck-Broichsitter was involved in several neo-Nazi movements.

Helmut Beck-Broichsitter
Born(1914-08-30)30 August 1914
Died25 September 2000(2000-09-25) (aged 86)
NationalityGerman
Political partyNazi Party
Socialist Reich Party
AwardsKnight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Career

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 that took part in rear-security operations (Bandenbekämpfung) in the occupied Soviet Union.[1]

After the war Beck-Broichsitter founded the "Bruderschaft" (Fraternity) in 1949 of former officers of the Wehrmacht[2] and his emphasis was on opposing Bolshevism.[3] Accused of spying for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, he resigned from the leadership.[4] He later joined the openly Nazi-orientated Socialist Reich Party.[5]

Awards

References
  1. Breitman and Goda 2010, p. 54.
  2. Brunner 2004, p. 155.
  3. Searle 2003, p. 157.
  4. Breitman and Goda 2010, p. 59.
  5. Brunner 2004, p. 155.
  6. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 107.
  • 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 [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945] (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.
  • 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)
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