Otto Ernst Remer

Remer was born in Neubrandenburg. He volunteered for the German army at 18 years of age, serving as an officer on both the Eastern and Western fronts during the Second World War. In 1944, after he had been wounded, Major Remer was chosen to command the Wachbattalion Großdeutschland in Berlin. During this time, Remer and his men successfully stopped the July 20 plot to seize control of the German government after the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. Upon being given orders to arrest Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels by General Paul von Hase, Remer became suspicious, and contacted Goebbels for direction. It was then arranged for Remer to speak by telephone with Hitler. Hitler asked Remer whether he would recognize his voice, and then gave Remer orders to crush the plot with his troops, which he did. On the same night, he was promoted by two ranks to Colonel. Remer discussed this incident in the British TV documentary series The World At War, produced in the early Seventies. He appeared to have no regrets about his role in crushing the plot, nor the war in general.[1] 1945 saw Remer's command of the Panzer Führer-Begleitbrigade at the Battle of the Bulge. He was eventually captured by American troops, and remained a Prisoner of War until 1947. Remer's Socialist Reich Party, which he had co-founded in 1950, was banned in 1952 after it had gathered about 360,000 supporters in Lower Saxony, and won 16 seats in the state parliament. The Socialist Reich Party also won 8 seats in the Bremen state parliament. Remer was sentenced to some months of imprisonment in October, 1992 for writing and publishing a number of articles that were said to have incited "racial hatred" through their questioning of the Holocaust. In February of 1994, Remer went into exile in Spain in an effort to avoid facing charges for his controversial public statements regarding the Holocaust. Remer was an avid supporter of the studies conducted by key individuals in the field of Holocaust denial, such as Fred Leuchter and Germar Rudolf. The high court of Spain ruled against appeals made by the German government to extradite Remer, claiming that he had not committed any crime. Later living in Egypt and Syria, Remer remained a wanted man in Germany until his death in 1997 at 85 years of age. Awards received * Iron Cross II Class * German Cross in Gold * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross * Oak Leaves of the Iron Cross * Golden Wound Badge * Silver Close Combat Badge * Winter War 1941-1942 Medal * Wehrmacht Long Service Medal Works * Verschwörung und Verrat um Hitler (Conspiracy and Betrayal Around Hitler) References * Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 edited by Philip Rees, (1991, ISBN 0-13-089301-3) * The Beast Reawakens by Martin A. Lee (1997, ISBN 0-316-51959-6) References 1. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fso9AVg1nq0 part of the Interview on Youtube @5:24 External links * Generalmajor Otto-Ernst Remer * http://www.bills-bunker.de/64690.html Otto Remer tells the story of his important role in crushing the coup against Hitler on 20th July 1944 * Germany's New Nazis 1951 pamphlet about Otto Ernst Remer and other neo--nazis

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