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    A Luftwaffenhelfer, also commonly known as a Flakhelfer, was any member of the auxiliary staff of the German Luftwaffe during World War II. Such terms...
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    Manfred Rommel (category Luftwaffenhelfer)
    adversaries. Rommel was born in Stuttgart and entered service as a Luftwaffenhelfer (air force assistant) in 1943 at age 14, serving in an anti-aircraft...
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  • Joseph Ratzinger was drafted with many of his classmates into the Luftwaffenhelfer program. They were posted first to Ludwigsfeld, north of Munich, as...
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    civilian employees, and almost 300,000 female and male auxiliaries (Luftwaffenhelfer). In October 1944, the anti-aircraft units had 600,000 soldiers and...
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  • defense; Luftwaffenhelferinnen, the female Luftwaffe auxiliaries; Luftwaffenhelfer, underage male youth serving anti-aircraft batteries between school...
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    Pope Benedict XVI (category Luftwaffenhelfer)
    in seminary, he was drafted into the German anti-aircraft corps as Luftwaffenhelfer. Ratzinger then trained in the German infantry. As the Allied front...
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    served in units outside the Legion such as Wehrmacht Auxiliaries and as Luftwaffenhelfer. Approximately 70,000 Latvians (both from Latvia and the Russian SFSR)...
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    Shortly before his flight, he had become engaged to Gertrud Naudit, a Luftwaffenhelfer. Sieber had held the rank of second lieutenant but was demoted to private...
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  • Luxembourgers serving in the German army as Luftwaffenhelfer...
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    Nazi Germany. Enrolled in the Hitler Youth at 14, he was drafted as a Luftwaffenhelfer two years later. Ratzinger deserted at the end of the war and was briefly...
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    Adenauer. Gestiftet von Staatsminister a.D. Heinz Schwarz MdB 1945 Luftwaffenhelfer an der ehemaligen Ludendorffbrucke 1972–76 Innenminister des Landes...
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    Japanese Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh, Iranian Omar Khadr, Canadian Luftwaffenhelfer, German Lwów Eaglets, Polish Dominic Ongwen, Ugandan Returned: Child...
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  • Ostermayer, Kristina van Eyck [de], Hans Korte, Ivan Desny Thriller Luftwaffenhelfer [de] Volker Vogeler Till Topf [de], Christoph Eichhorn, Alexander Radszun...
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  • duties as a flak division, the formation also received auxiliaries (Luftwaffenhelfer), including underage students.: 233  Around January 1945, the city...
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    Günter Grass (category Luftwaffenhelfer)
    attended the Danzig gymnasium Conradinum. In 1943, at age 16, he became a Luftwaffenhelfer (Air Force "helper"). Soon thereafter, he was conscripted into the...
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  • auxiliary roles in the Luftwaffe and were known as flakhelfer, from luftwaffenhelfer. In anticipation of the possible Allied invasion of Japan, Japanese...
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    Günter Guillaume (category Luftwaffenhelfer)
    Günter Guillaume (1 February 1927 – 10 April 1995) was an East German spy who gathered intelligence as an agent for East Germany's secret service, the...
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    Jürgen Moltmann (category Luftwaffenhelfer)
    Jürgen Moltmann (born 8 April 1926) is a German Reformed theologian who is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen and...
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    Niklas Luhmann (category Luftwaffenhelfer)
    Gymnasium Johanneum at Luneburg in 1937. In 1943, he was conscripted as a Luftwaffenhelfer in World War II and served for two years until, at the age of 17, he...
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    nationalist content. Near the end of the Second World War, young Luftwaffenhelfers and children were encouraged to read the novel to promote guerrilla...
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    Konrad Naumann (category Luftwaffenhelfer)
    the Hitler Youth organisation. In 1944 his class was conscripted as Luftwaffenhelfer which by this stage in the war had become in most respects a schoolboy...
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    Heinz Schwarz (category Luftwaffenhelfer)
    Kreissparkasse in Neuwied, but was drafted as a Airforce auxiliary (Luftwaffenhelfer). After World War II, he completed his commercial education in 1947...
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  • air raid protection Luftwaffe – "air force"; the German Air Force. Luftwaffenhelfer – "Luftwaffe assistant"; see FlaK-Helfer. Luftschutzpolizei – (Air...
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  • founded 26 February 1935. Today, it is the air arm of the Bundeswehr. Luftwaffenhelfer (Luftwaffe Helpers; Flak Helpers) – official NS term for students who...
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  • Thomas Luckmann (category Luftwaffenhelfer)
    was drafted for the army, joining the Luftwaffe where he served as a Luftwaffenhelfer. Luckmann was transferred to a military hosipital for minor injuries...
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    American Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh, Iranian Omar Khadr, Canadian Luftwaffenhelfer, German Lwów Eaglets, Polish Dominic Ongwen, Ugandan Returned: Child...
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  • 1979: Neonschatten (TV film) 1980: Kaiserhofstraße 12 (TV film) 1980: Luftwaffenhelfer [de] (TV film) 1981: Exil (TV miniseries) 1982: Die Chance (Short)...
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    Horst-Adalbert Koch: Flak - Die Geschichte der deutschen Flakartillerie und der Einsatz der Luftwaffenhelfer, 2. Auflage, Podzun Verlag, Bad Nauheim 1965...
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    Manfred Eigen (category Luftwaffenhelfer)
    Manfred Eigen (German pronunciation: [ˈmanˌfʁeːt ˈaɪ̯ɡn̩] ; 9 May 1927 – 6 February 2019) was a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize...
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    Dieter Noll (category Luftwaffenhelfer)
    Oberschule before being drafted as a Luftwaffenhelfer, or assistant in the Nazi air force. Noll served as a Luftwaffenhelfer in the Schweren Heimatflakbatterie...
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