Posted on 06/03/2024 2:30:15 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Discover the unbelievable bravery of Franz Hasel, a German soldier who risked his life to defy the Nazis during WWII.
On a mild Saturday in 1939, a letter arrived at a German farmhouse that changed the family’s world. It was a summons from the draft board for the 40-year-old Franz Hasel to attend the recruitment office in Frankfurt the following Monday.
Because he was a pacifist, Hasel was assigned as a private to the Pioneer Company 699, which built roads, bridges and fortifications at the front lines. But Hasel’s story is truly unbelievable. Although he wore the uniform, he disagreed with the Nazi agenda. He even risked his life to warn the people in the villages the army had passed through that the SS death squads would soon be coming to their town. And then, during the middle of the advance into Russia, he informed his sergeant to be prepared because Hitler would not win the war.
These were acts and words of treason during wartime. They were enough to have a soldier face a firing squad. So, how did Franz Hasel survive, and how did he know that Hitler would not win the war?
Well, that is what makes this story so fascinating. Join me as we journey with a man who dared to defy the society, culture and the army of his time because he believed in a higher law.
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Not all Germans were savage robots.
Among other things, probably one of the few members of the Wehrmacht that wasn’t strung out on Pervitin.
Good post!
No they weren’t. Shopie Scholl and the White Rose Resistance Movement tried and other Germans of conscience but their efforts came far too late and far between. Too many Germans were happy to go along with things and didn’t seem to mind much at all as their neighbors , especially their Jewish neighbors disappeared.
This young soldier obviously answered the Biblical admonition to be his brothers keeper. God bless him.
Historians point to November 9, 1938, Kristhallnacht’’ as ‘’the night the Holocaust began’’. The Holocaust began the moment Adolf Hitler opened his mouth and the German people shut theirs.
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