Eva had hated Bormann. I had to stop. 16 However, on 20 June Kempka was captured by US troops in Berchtesgaden, who held him in captivity until October 9, 1947. Please reset your password. SS-Obersturmbannführer Erich Kempka (16 September 1910 – 24 January 1975) was a member of the SS in Nazi Germany who served as Adolf Hitler's primary chauffeur from 1934 to April, 1945. By that time, Hitler and Braun's bodies had already been carried out of the study-office of the Führerbunker. Under the present artillery bombardment it would be certain death for my men to go there and I was not prepared to give the order. This was where Hitler's niece, of whom he was very fond, had apparently killed herself for his sake. Kempka joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) on 1st April 1930. [25], Despite claims made to the contrary during his interrogation, Kempka later admitted that when Hitler and Eva Braun locked themselves in a room of the Führerbunker to commit suicide, he was not nearby; he was present after the event had occurred. The latter received an express order to contact me and arrange for enough fuel to immolate the bodies of Hitler and his wife: "I do not wish to be displayed after my death in a Russian panopticon like Lenin.".
[28], Media related to Erich Kempka at Wikimedia Commons, "Bin Laden's Former Driver Is Convicted in Split Verdict", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erich_Kempka&oldid=968469501, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. Please note: You are asking volunteers to find and take a photo of the headstone. Hitler made a will leaving all his property to the Nazi Party. If anyone happened to stop him during this short walk (some fifty or sixty yards), he was forced either to sit down on one of the seats placed along the walls for the purpose, or to catch hold of the person he was speaking to... Often saliva would dribble from the comers of his mouth... presenting a hideous and pitiful spectacle. Other sources state that Betz died from wounds received during the crossing of the Weidendammer bridge. I hear Lutze putting in a good word for him with Hitler. Kempka later recalled in I Was Hitler's Chauffeur: The Memoirs of Erich Kempka (1951): "At first I thought this was a bad joke and told him it was out of the question." I sent the man back. I had not reckoned with the weight and my strength tailed. "How could that happen, Otto? Then he turned and said: "The chief is dead.". On Hitler's order he was arraigned immediately before a court-martial and sentenced to death for treason. [1] In 1934, he was present at the arrest of Ernst Röhm.
Kempka died on 24 January 1975, aged sixty-four, in Freiberg am Neckar.[3].
You need a Find a Grave account to add things to this site. In 1975, it was reissued with a foreword by author and former member of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Erich Kern under the less sensationalist title Die letzten Tage mit Adolf Hitler (The Last Days with Adolf Hitler). The car had 18Â mm steel plate and 40Â mm bullet-proof glass. There they met some foreign workers hiding in a shed, where the Germans took advantage to get rid of their uniforms and put on civilian clothes. You can still file a request but no one will be notified. Later Hitler’s car became protected by glass plates and bullet-proof armor. Then I seized a canister of petrol, ran out again and placed it near the two bodies. There were twenty steps up to the bunker exit. Failed to delete memorial. Hitler had shot himself in his study with his pistol and had then fallen head first across the table surface.
[1] He worked as a mechanic for the automotive manufacturer DKW. It was precisely Kempka who provided gasoline for the cremation of Hitler and Eva Braun in the chancery gardens. His untidy hair fluttered in the wind.
See how much you can collect from the fuel tanks of your damaged vehicles, and send your men at once to the exit to the Führer-bunker. His voice hoarse with excitement he said, "I must have 200 litres of petrol immediately!" There is a problem with your email/password. Drag images here or select from your computer for Erich Kempka memorial. I had no idea from where he had called nor where I could reach him. He was released on 9 October 1947. Under the protection of this panzer heading for the tank barrier, Bormann, Naumann and Stumpfegger doubled forward while I watched.
Hitler also developed a tremor in his left arm and leg. Kempka was one of those responsible for the burning of Hitler and Eva Braun's corpses after they committed suicide together on the afternoon of 30 April 1945. The email does not appear to be a valid email address.
[23] On 20 June, Kempka was captured by U.S. troops at Berchtesgaden and held until 9 October 1947.
Verify and try again. Now in death her greatest enemy carried her to the pyre. His features had changed visibly. Plese check the I'm not a robot checkbox.'. ", Paul R. Maracin, the author of The Night of the Long Knives: Forty-Eight Hours that Changed the History of the World (2004), has argued: "Ten minutes later, SS officers Michael Lippert and Theodor Eicke appeared, and as the embittered, scar-faced veteran of verdun defiantly stood in the middle of the cell stripped to the waist, the two SS officers riddled his body with revolver bullets." As white as chalk and distraught, he stared at me.... For God's sake, Otto, what is it? Later the Soviet troops left the area. "Erich, I am desperately in need of a drink. [8] Otto Günsche had telephoned Kempka and told him to obtain as much petrol as he could and bring it to the emergency exit of the Führerbunker. It was a nervous disorder that reappeared whenever Hitler felt he was in danger. During these years Kempka maintained a relationship with Gerda Daranowski , one of the private secretaries of Hitler, although it later married an officer of the Luftwaffe , on 2 February 1943. Under a hail of shell and mortar fire we crossed Friedrich-Strasse to the railway station where a couple of our panzers were standing and still offering the Russians battle. Kempka died on January 24, 1975, at the age of 64, in Freiberg am Neckar . The drivers told me that he had got out in the Kurfurstendamm district to proceed on foot.". From there he continued to Berchtesgaden . Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. [25], Despite claims made to the contrary during his interrogation, Kempka later admitted that when Hitler and Eva Braun locked themselves in a room of the Führerbunker to commit suicide, he was not nearby; he was present after the event had occurred. Kempka's paternal grandparents were Ruhr Poles. Below the greying hair the forehead had the waxy pallor of death. In 1936 he replaced Julius Schreck as Hitler's primary chauffeur and chief of his car fleet. [3] On 20 April, ten days before Hitler's suicide, he briefly wished the Führer a happy birthday and spent about fifteen minutes with him.
As he had done in the good times, he tried to keep the conversation unforced, with everybody participating.
One man remarked: "It was a ghastly physical image he presented. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com.
Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? ", Linge returned hurriedly into the sitting room. Eva Hitler was carried out first. Failed to remove flower. In haste, Dr Stumpfegger and Linge had placed the dead Hitler on the ground about three metres half-right of the bunker exit, very close to the giant cement mixer which was to have been used to thicken the Fuhrer-bunker roof by one metre. Hitler rejected the idea as he feared the possibility of being captured. She later married Luftwaffe officer Eckhard Christian on 2 February 1943.[7]. As I did so, the door of Hitler's sitting room opened and personal manservant Linge shouted desperately for the fuel: "The petrol... where is the petrol," I replied: "It is in position! Kempka maintained during the restuo of his life the relation with the Führerbegleitkommando attending meetings of the old members of the I Panzer SS Body .
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