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20-09-2007, 01:18 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: West Wickham, Kent
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You're Top Poster: #10   | Count Heinrich von Einsiedel RIP Luftwaffe ace Count Heinrich von Einsiedel has died. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../19/db1902.xml Descendent of Bismarck; one of the men who shot down Eugene Esmonde and his flight of Swordfish, POW of the Russians, then changed sides several times. Man of Principle; "Vicar of Bray" type who was out to save his skin, or muddled eccentric? Last edited by Kyt; 20-09-2007 at 11:01 AM.. Reason: Fixed url |
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20-09-2007, 11:10 AM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Naive seems to be an apt description. However, his case seems to highlight the issue of "disciple complex" quite well - he seemed to have had a desire to follow two different totalitarian systems, and I wonder whether that is symptomatic of his own personal upbringing (being brought up as a Bismarck must have been strict), or a wider Germanic trait of that time? Though he changed sides during the war, there were plenty of ex-Nazis who thrived under the post-war communist regime in East Germany.
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