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    A sad reminder

    Just going through my collection to database items not yet researched and came across this photo....named on the back Albert Gonsenheimer 1918.....

    The Gonsenheimers lived at Helmstedter Strasse, Belin-Wilmersdorf, Albert was born 17/10/1899, They appear to have emigrated to Brussels/Monte Carlo in the 1930's. In 1935 his German nationality was annulled by the Nazi regime. He was a truck driver.

    In 1940 he was deported to camp Saint-Cyprien in France, released then re-arrested in 1942 he was Deported from Drancy on the 18th transport to Auschwitz and on the 22/01/1945 transported to Buchenwald where he died on the 28/02/1945.

    Where the photo came from, who wrote the name I do not know..........RIP
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    #2
    Very Sad mate,,Thanks for posting it though

    Ross

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      #3
      I'm assuming that he was Jewish and hence the stripping of his German heritage. Very sad to have served his country in WW1 and then treated the way he was

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        #4
        Poor chap. What an injustice to be killed by the country you fought for!!

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          #5
          Many Jews served in the German army in WWI though there was always discrimination. Even some of the celebrated pilots, like Fritz Beckhardt and Willy Rosenstein (Jasta 40) had a hard time finding sympathetic former comrades after the war.

          This soldier must be from the Telegraphen Bataillon Nr.1 (Garde Korps).

          Chip

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            #6
            on jewish cemetery in my town is still to see a monument for ww1 heros from jewish "geminde" even big EK are still to see.

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              #7
              Originally posted by besslein View Post
              on jewish cemetery in my town is still to see a monument for ww1 heros from jewish "geminde" even big EK are still to see.
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                #8
                memorial

                Could you show a pic of the cemetery itself? Where is this? Very interesting.

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                  #9
                  it is in Breslau,even in spring 1945 some Waffen SS soldiers are buried here.
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                    #10
                    What a terrible injustice....RIP.
                    When you go home
                    Tell them for us and say
                    For your tomorrow
                    We gave our today

                    --Inscription in the 5th Marine Division cemetery,
                    Iwo Jima 1945

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                      #11
                      Very sad. Really makes you stop and think........

                      Thank you for posting.

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                        #12
                        Another reason to be disgusted by Hitler and his gang of bully boys & mass murderers

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