Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Remer Otto-Erns
Title : An eyewitness report of the bomb plot
Year : 1951

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My role on 20th July 1944 in Berlin. I took command of the Wachregiment Großdeutschland in May 1944. I was given command as a reward for my frontline service, having been wounded eight times ( and once more before the end of the war), and I am a holder of the Knights Cross with Oakleaves. My duties included defending the Reich capital in case of an uprising, it must be remembered that there was at this time about one million foreign workers in Berlin. During the morning of 20th July 1944, my Regiment was put on standby, as was other units of the Home Army, we had recieved the codeword "Walküre" which alarmed all units to the fact that there was a general uprising in Germany. I made my way to the Stadt Kommandant in Berlin, General-Leutnant von Hasse. "The Führer is dead ! ...