Wegner, Armin Theophil

Date of birth:: October 16th, 1886 (Elberfeld/Rhineprovince, Germany)
Date of death:: May 17th, 1978 (Rome/Lazio, Italy)
Nationality:: German

Biography

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Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse (1914)

Period:: First World War (1914-1918)

Yad Vashem-decoration

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: May 23rd, 1967

Großes Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der BRD

Awarded on:: 1956

Sources

Photo 1: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain
- PRENGER, K., In de schaduw van Schindler, Just Publishers, 2022.
- PRENGER, K., Righteous Behind Barbed Wire, 2024.
- Yad Vashem

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News

16Feb

Armin T. Wegner and his letter to Hitler

On April 1, 1933, the mood in many shopping streets in Germany was grim. Sturdy men in brown shirts with a black swastika on a red and white band on their upper arm were standing in front of large warehouses as well as tiny shops. These places had not been selected at random by members of Hitler’s Sturmabteilung or SA. Stars of David in white paint on shop windows and the text on the Nazi protest signs made it clear. ‘Germans, take care! Do not buy from Jews!’ was the slogan of the day.

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