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Roland Freisler to Martin Bormann on the Fate of Author, Ernst Jünger

Roland Freisler to Martin Bormann on the Fate of Author, Ernst Jünger

December 1, 1944.

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A brief but historically significant letter from the “chief executioner” of the NSDAP regime - Roland Freisler - to Martin Bormann, Hitler’s second in command. The matter at hand? The fate of one Ernst Jünger, accused of issuing defeatist proclamations while in uniform as a Captain in the Wehrmacht. Hitler himself waived off the investigation.

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