Arndt, Wilhelm

Hauptscharführer Wilhelm Arndt

- chamberlain Adolf Hitler


b.: 6.7.1913
died.: 22.4.1945 (died in air crash)


After joining the SS, Wilhelm Arndt joins Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, later graduates hotel vocational school Pasing.

Since 1943 he has been one of the personal chamberlains of Adolf Hitler.

On Hitler's order, d & # 328; a April 21, 1945, a list was compiled, which was compiled by Nikolaus von Below (adjutant) for the Luftwaffe with Julius Schaub, Hitler's chief associate and Hitler first pilot Hans Baur. The list included about 80-100 people who were allowed to leave & # 357; Berlin and departure & # 357; by Hitler's squadron aircraft to Obersalzberg. Most of the planes took off from Berlin's Gatow Airport, which had not yet been sharpened by the Soviet army.

Arndt also flew in one of the planes that flew from Staaken Airport (west of Berlin), accompanying 30-40 boxes with Hitler's personal belongings and diet food. The machine type Junkers Ju-352, piloted by Major Friedrich A. Gundlfinger, however, did not reach the finish line. On the night of April 22-23, 1945, the plane crashed near Börnersdorf in Saxony, killing the entire crew.


resources:
Eberle, H .; Uhl M .: Kniha Hitler, IKAR 2006
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