Allegiance Nazi Germany Name Helmut Beck-Broichsitter Other work Police officer | Rank Major im Generalstab Years of service 1935–45 Service/branch German Army | |
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Born 30 August 1914Kiel ( 1914-08-30 ) Battles/wars World War IIBattle of FranceBattle of Sedan (1940)Battle of DunkirkInvasion of YugoslaviaOperation BarbarossaBattle of Bialystok–MinskYelnya OffensiveBattle of Kiev (1941)Battle of MemelEast Prussian Offensive Died September 25, 2000, Heist, Germany Unit Infantry Regiment Grosdeutschland Battles and wars Battle of France, Battle of Sedan | ||
Helmut Beck-Broichsitter (30 August 1914 – 25 September 2000) was an officer in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Following the war, Beck-Broichsitter was involved in several neo-Nazi movements.
Beck-Broichsitter became a member of the Nazi Party in 1931, of the Sturmabteilung in 1932 and of the police in 1939. In the years till 1944 he served in Feldgendarmerie units and combated partisans behind the lines.
After the war Beck-Broichsitter founded the "Bruderschaft" (Fraternity) in 1949 of former officers of the Wehrmacht. The ideological basis of the brotherhood laid in the National Socialist and conservative revolutionary ideology of the Weimar time. Beck-Broichsitter focus was in a front against Bolshevism. Accused of spying for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution he resigned from leadership. He later joined the openly Nazi orientated Socialist Reich Party.