Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German World War II Stuka pilot
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Place of Birth: Grzędy, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
About Hans-Ulrich Rudel
- Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 – 18 December 1982) was a German ground-attack pilot during World War II.
- Rudel was the most decorated German serviceman of World War II, being the sole recipient of the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds in January 1945.
- Post-war, he was a prominent neo-Nazi activist in Latin America and West Germany. During the war, Rudel was credited with the destruction of 519 tanks, as well as one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft and 150 artillery emplacements.
- He claimed 51 aerial victories and the destruction of more than 800 vehicles of all types.
- He flew 2,530 ground-attack missions exclusively on the Eastern Front, usually flying the Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bomber.Rudel surrendered to US forces on 8 May 1945 and emigrated to Argentina in 1948.
- A committed and unrepentant National Socialist, he founded the "Kameradenwerk", a relief organization for Nazi refugees that helped fugitives escape to Latin America and the Middle East.
- Together with Willem Sassen, Rudel helped shelter Josef Mengele, the notorious former SS doctor at Auschwitz.
- He worked as an arms dealer and a military advisor to the regimes of Juan Perón in Argentina, of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, and of Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay.
- Due to these activities, he was placed under observation by the US Central Intelligence Agency. In the West German federal election of 1953, Rudel, who had returned to West Germany, was the top candidate for the far-right German Reich Party but was not elected to the Bundestag.
- Following the Revolución Libertadora in 1955, the uprising that ended the second presidential term of Perón, Rudel moved to Paraguay, where he acted as a foreign representative for several German companies.
- In 1977, he became a spokesman for the German People's Union, a neo-Nazi political party founded by the extremist politician Gerhard Frey.
- Rudel died in West Germany in 1982.
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