Author: Otto Ernst Remer

Major General (ret.) Otto Ernst Remer (born Aug. 18, 1912, Neubrandenburg, Germany; died Oct. 4, 1997, Marbella, Spain) was a German Wehrmacht officer in World War II who played a major role in stopping the 20 July plot in 1944 against Adolf Hitler. In his later years, he became a politician and right-wing activist. He was also a Holocaust skeptic and avoided incarceration in Germany for his historical views only by fleeing to Spain in the early 1990s.

An Interview with General Otto Ernst Remer

By Otto Ernst Remer ∙ April 1, 1990

Q: General Remer, what was your role in the Second World War? A:… I was a front-line commander, and I led combat units throughout the war years. The only exceptions were a three-month period in Berlin as commander of the Berlin guard regiment and another three months as commander of the bodyguard brigade of Hitler's…

My Role in Berlin on July 20, 1944

By Otto Ernst Remer ∙ April 1, 1988

My assignment to the guard regiment “Großdeutschland” in Berlin was actually a form of rest and recreation – my first leave from the front – after my many wounds and in recognition of my combat decorations, including the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves and the Close Combat Badge in Silver (forty-eight days of close combat)….

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