biography
| name: |
Schlageter, Albert Leo
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pronunciation:
{shlahgeter]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1923)
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| biography:
| German officer and member of a volunteer corps, born in Schönau/Schwarzwald, SW Germany. After 1918 he was active in the volunteer corps in Latvia, the Ruhr, and Upper Silesia. In April 1923 he was arrested by the French for acts of sabotage during the Ruhrkampf and sentenced to death by a French military court. Executed in Golzheimer Heide, he became a symbol for the Nazis. |
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